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Which of the following statements might be made by a sociologist using the gender-conflict approach?


A) Men and women share in the joys of family life.
B) In many ways,men are in positions of power over women.
C) Gender functions in an important way to keep society operating.
D) All of these responses are correct.

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In several sentences,explain the focus of the symbolic-interaction approach.

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In the United States,secondary schools place students in college preparatory tracks that partially reflect the social background of their families.

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E.Digby Baltzell's historical study,Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia,illustrates which research method?


A) the experiment
B) the survey
C) participant observation
D) existing sources

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According to sociologists,human behavior reflects our personal "free will."

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Read the following four statements about social patterns we find in the world as a whole.Which statement is FALSE?


A) The world is now home to 7 billion people.
B) A majority of the world's people live in Asia.
C) People in the United States make up one-third of the global population.
D) A majority of the world's people have completed a college degree.

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The social-conflict approach sometimes receives criticism for


A) focusing on values that everyone shares.
B) being openly political.
C) promoting the status quo.
D) All of these responses are correct.

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What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?


A) People marry because they fall in love.
B) When it comes to romance,it's all a matter of personal taste.
C) Typically,a person marries someone of similar social position.
D) When it comes to love,opposites attract.

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Durkheim documented that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates.

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Which of the following examples illustrates a micro-level focus?


A) the operation of the U.S.economy
B) patterns of global terrorism
C) two people on an airplane getting to know one another
D) class inequality in the armed forces

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Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?


A) sociology
B) psychology
C) economics
D) history

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Which of the following historical changes is among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline?


A) the founding of the Roman Catholic Church
B) the rise of the industrial economy and growth of cities
C) the power of tradition
D) a belief that our future is defined by "fate"

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Which of the following categories contains countries in which average income is typical for the world as a whole and in which people are as likely to live in a rural area as in an urban area?


A) low-income nations
B) middle-income nations
C) high-income nations
D) None of the other responses is correct.

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Explain the focus of the gender-conflict or feminist approach.Compare and contrast this approach to the race-conflict approach.Using each of these approaches,provide several sentences that offer a critical analysis of our society.

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The focus of the symbolic-interaction approach is how society is divided by class,race,and gender.

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The goal of the structural-functional approach is no so much to understand how society operates as it is to reduce social inequality.

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If we state that children raised in single-parent families are at high risk of being single parents themselves,we have constructed a(n) _____ of family life.


A) approach
B) precept
C) concept
D) theory

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Why is it necessary for researchers to understand the social characteristics of the people they are studying? What problems could arise if a researcher started to study the Amish,Korean Americans,or some other distinctive category of people and had no understanding of their way of life?

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W.E.B.Du Bois translated the writings of Auguste Comte from French into English.

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Empirical evidence is nothing more than what people in a society agree is true.

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