Theory and Perspectives

A. it doesn’t pay attention to male victims
B. it lacks objectivity
C. it is too extreme
D. it is not testable
E. it is not really a theory

A. interviews
B. experiments
C. quantitative measurement
D. observation
E. surveys

A. minority rights
B. women
C. consensus
D. latent functions
E. the rights of workers

A. Structural Functionalism
B. Feminism
C. Conflict
D. Staples
E. Symbolic Interaction ism

A. there are no absolutes concerning social life
B. all though would eventually lead to justifying human action
C. early philosophers were too concerned with creating a utopian society
D. sociologists should be primarily concerned with solving problems
E. humans would eventually seek out the most efficient means to accomplish a particular task

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

A. the United States
B. Canada
C. Europe
D. Australia

A. wealthy aristocrats
B. sixteenth-century population growth
C. industrialization
D. developments in transportation and communication
E. international migration

A. Durkheim
B. Blumer
C. Lemert
D. Berger
E. Mills

A. taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism
B. studying society from the perspective of women
C. the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives
D. a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge