A. family
B. peer group
C. school
D. state
A. human behavior is meaningful and varies between individuals and cultures
B. it is difficult for sociologists to gain access to a research laboratory
C. sociologists are not rational or critical enough in their approach
D. we cannot collect empirical data about social life
A. capitalist nations fully agree on the merits of capitalism practiced by all developed nations
B. Russia Eastern Europe Latin America and Asia have fully accepted and are practicing the style of capitalism practiced in the United States
C. in dynamic Asian nations (e.g. Japan Singapore Hong Kong South Korea and Taiwan) government intervention in economic life has resulted in a “government-business symbiosis ” different from that in Europe and the United States
D. the performance of the Asian economy and financial institutions in late 1997 and early 1998 strongly supports the “government-business /state capitalism/communal capitalism economic arrangement
A. Biology
B. History
C. Sociology
D. Economics
A. only women can write from a feminist perspective
B. other theoretical perspectives have not researched women
C. they emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
D. men and women view the and world in different ways
A. triangulation
B. explanation
C. description
D. exploration
A. standard accounts of the origins of sociology focus on the industrial and French revolutions giving no weight to the significance of colonialism in shag modern societies
B. the sociological gaze is Eurocentric failing to incorporate the experience of formerly colonized societies
C. sociology has described Western societies as developed or modem in opposition to the notion of non-Western societies as pre-modern traditional inferiors
D. the sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing