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A highly conformist culture is less prone to_______________?
A. Change
B. Cultural diffusion
C. both a and b
D. None of these
Which of these distinguishes modern nation-sates from traditional civilizations ?
A. a national identity with an associated set of symbols and beliefs
B. governmental authority over a clearly demarcated territory
C. the granting of citizenship rights to the relevant population
D. all of the above
Which of the following was not identified as a defining feature of culture ?
A. Culture is symbolic
B. Culture is transmitted
C. Culture is cumulative
D. Culture is shared
E. Culture is learned
When in sociology we speak of researchers using controls we mean_________________?
A. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis
B. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others
C. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible
D. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process
The multiple-nuclei theory of urban growth was presented by______________?
A. Ernest Burgess
B. Homer Hoyt
C. Ferdinand Tonnies
D. C.D Harris and Edward L. Ulman
Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries
People waiting for a bus are an example of a(n) ?
A. group
B. aggregate
C. subculture
D. transitory collective
The first step in any sociological research project is to_________________?
A. collect data
B. define the problem
C. review previous research
D. formulate a hypothesis
What is the concept used by Karl Marx to explain workers loss of control over their labor power in capitalist societies ?
A. anomie
B. pauperization
C. de-skilling
D. alienation
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