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Suicide is “the supremely antisocial and
nonsocial act” because:
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Durkheim called suicides that occur in
very high-solidarity settings:
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2. altruistic
3. anomic
4. egocentric
5. misanthropic
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solve social problems?
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Which theory argues that members of
privileged groups try to maintain their
advantages and that eliminating privilege
reduces conflict and increases human
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welfare?
From a sociological viewpoint, friendship
ties among people who meet regularly to
enjoy a drink and conversation is an
example of…
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4. relations among
institutions
The type of suicide that predominates
when vague norms govern behavior is:
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countries is about what percent of the
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Invisible and unintended effects of social
structure are called:
1. manifest functions
2. symbolic
interaction
3. dysfunctions
4. latent functions
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According to Durkheim, the more a group's
members share beliefs and values, and the
more frequently and intensely they interact,
the more social solidarity there is in the
group.
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2. False
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C. Wright Mills called the ability to see the
connection between personal troubles and
social structures the “sociological
imagination.”
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2. False
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Merton’s ideas about dysfunctions are part of
the conflict tradition.
1. True
2. False
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Weber argued that capitalism developed
most robustly where the “Protestant ethic”
took hold.
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2. False
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Symbolic interactionists have been at the
forefront of demonstrating problems with
official statistics on suicide and other social
phenomena.
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2. False
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Few women figured prominently in the early
history of sociology because of the strict
demands placed on them by the nineteenthcentury family and the lack of opportunity for
them in the larger society.
1. True
2. False
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Sociologists engage in participant
observation when they attempt to observe a
social milieu objectively and take part in the
activities of the people they are studying.
1. True
2. False
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In an experiment, the experimental group is
the group that is exposed to the independent
variable while the control group is the group
that is not exposed to the independent
variable.
1. True
2. False
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Setting yourself up in a public place, such as
a shopping mall, and asking willing passersby
to answer some questions would be a good
strategy for obtaining a representative
sample.
1. True
2. False
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Census data, police crime reports, and
records of key life events are the most
frequently used sources of official statistics.
1. True
2. False
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