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

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

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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.

The social-conflict approach sometimes receives criticism for

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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