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QUESTION 30

In the film Bruce Almighty, the actor Morgan Freeman plays God. In one scene in the film he is mopping a floor with Jim Carrey's character Bruce. When they are finished Freeman/God says that there is freedom in doing work for yourself. What concept does this most strongly reflect?

		Social Statics
		Social Darwinism
		Anomie
		Positivism
		Species-being

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QUESTION 31

Fred is combing through General Social Survey (GSS) data so that he can conduct research on the American population and whether attitudes towards abortion, racism, and sexism have changed over time. Fred is engaging in what type of social research method?

		Simple Random Sampling
		Action Research
		Online Survey
		Non-participant observation
		Secondary Data Analysis

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QUESTION 32

________________ was one of the first sociologists to combine activism with academic practices in order to analyze the situation of African-Americans in the United States.

		Herbert Spencer
		John Kenneth Galbraith
		Karl Marx
		W.E.B. Du Bois
		Emile Durkheim

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QUESTION 33

Jill wants to engage in a research study looking at the influence that assimilation (IV) has on deviant behavior (DV) in immigrant teenagers in a small town on the Texas-Mexico border. In order to look at assimilation she decides to focus on the teenager's grades, participation in extracurricular activities, as well as their general interactions with classmates who are native born Americans. This process of measuring her concept of assimilation is referred to as:

		Conceptualization
		Causal Reasoning
		Operationalization
		Deductive Reasoning
		Theorizing

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QUESTION 34

Why did Max Weber believe that the development of bureaucracies was inevitable with the rapid modernization?

		They were based on the premise of creating barriers of access for poor people
		They were the most rational and logical ways to address modernization
		Their many rules and hierarchical structures provided confusing and slow responses
		With all of the many problems associated with capitalism, bureaucracies provided governments with the ability to regulate capitalists
		In order to keep track of the many people moving to cities bureaucracies were seen as being able to keep track of all such people

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QUESTION 35

A systematic set of techniques, procedures and analytical processes used to critically examine the natural and social world:

		Positivism
		Quantitative Research
		Ethnographic Research
		Scientific Method
		Macrosociology

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QUESTION 36

Jane is interested in doing some sociological research. She notices that the more social media platforms her friends use, the more fights they have and the more friends they lose. This is compared to her friends who shun social media entirely and have much more stable and long-lasting friendships. She finds this strange since social media is supposed to connect people and strengthen their relationships by allowing easier and constant communication. This example is an illustration of the concept of:

		Alienation
		Anomie
		Latent Functions
		Dysfunctions
		Social Darwinism

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QUESTION 37

Action research (also referred to as Participatory Action research or PAR) is a community-based research method which involves:
I. Looking at the problem by including the input of those affected
II. Interviewing those who are a part of a problem
III. Thinking about the information obtained
IV. Acting to develop a solution
Which of these options are components of action research?

		I, III, and IV
		II and III only
		II only
		I, II, and IV
		All of the answers are true

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QUESTION 38

What time period arguably spurred and created a ripe environment for the development of sociology as a discipline?

		The Industrial Revolution
		The Feudal Period
		The Golden Age
		The Age of Enlightenment
		The Colonial Period

Answer 1

30. Species being, the concept that has been propagated prolifically by Marx.

31. Actions Research, as this type os research tries to look for answers and looks to reflect on certain issues that affect the society.

32. W.E.B Du Bois was the one to integrate and help.

33. Operationalization, is when a phenomena if cannot be measured directly is measured through other assistive variables.

34. They were the most rational and logical ways to address modernization

35. Macrosociology

36. Dysfunctions, as they have an unrecognized negative influence.

37. All of the answers are true

38. The industrial Revolution spurred the growth of sociology as a discipline in order to understand and comprehend the social units of structures better.