Category: Theory and Perspectives

A. testable
B. formulated prior to research
C. based on pre-existing facts
D. exclusively sociological
E. issue driven

A. Performing their respective functions
B. Contributing in social equilibrium
C. Beneficial to the society
D. All of the above

A. recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work
B. stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects
C. emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data
D. all of the above

A. sexuality
B. discipline
C. discourse
D. all of the these

A. Enlightenment thinkers/philosophers
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. Globalization
D. Renaissance thinkers/philosophers
E. The rapid expansion of colonialism

A. Comte
B. Rousseau
C. Mead
D. Locke
E. Durkheim

A. feudalism
B. communism
C. capitalism
D. liberalism

A. Organic solidarity
B. Mechanical solidarity
C. both a & b
D. None of these

A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. anomie theory of deviance

A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. dramaturgical approach