Conflict theory is often criticized for failing to account for______________?

A. Minority rights
B. Women
C. Consensus
D. Latent functions

Which research technique would sociologists who adhere to the symbolic interactionist perspective use? most likely to employ ?

A. Interviews
B. Experiments
C. Quantitative measurement
D. Observation

Feminism is often criticized on the grounds that_____________?

A. It doesn’t pay attention to male victims
B. It lacks objectivity
C. It is too extreme
D. It is not testable

Mass-society theory suggests that______________?

A. The content of the media is determined market forces
B. The subordinate classes are dominated by the ideology of the ruling class
C. The media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers
D. Audiences make selective interpretations of media messages

The media-themes model of media influence claims that_____________?

A. Audiences selectively interpret what they want to hear
B. Content analysis is the best way to identify the themes covered by the media
C. Audiences passively absorb whatever messages they are given
D. Social interaction reinforces the ideas and images that audiences select

A moral panic occurs when_______________?

A. The media exaggerate reports of deviant groups generating hostile reactions
B. Children watch violent or sexually explicit films and then copy the behavior
C. Audiences challenge the ethnic stereotypes represented by the media
D. Elitists express concern with the americanization of culture

Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________?

A. A theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society
B. The precise scientific study of observable phenomena
C. A theory that posits difficult s and sets out to answer them
D. An unscientific set of laws about social progress

Durkheim defined social facts as___________?

A. Ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
B. The way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
C. Data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
D. Ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world

The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows instrumentally-rational value-rational traditional and____________?

A. Affectual
B. Affective
C. Effective
D. Infected

The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic interactionist theory teaches that_______________?

A. Theory must be augmented by straightforward plausible methods
B. We can find true objective knowledge of the world through our senses
C. Knowledge is produced in everyday practical situations
D. The best social theory was developed in prague