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True-False questions



 This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
Society refers to the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects passed from one generation to the next in a human group.

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Question 2.
Robert Merton was responsible for developing the concept referred to as sociological imagination.

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Question 3.
Macrolevel analysis is a primary feature of the functionalist and conflict perspectives.

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Question 4.
Keeping young people out of the full-time labor market and providing day care services are two examples of dysfunction in the education system.

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Question 5.
During the Industrial Revolution, industrialization and urbanization were accompanied by a sharp increase in urban social problems including poverty and crime.

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Question 6.
The lifestyle routine activity approach to explain violence and crime is based on the timing of people's daily movements and activities as they go about obtaining the necessities of life.


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Question 7.
Ideal culture and real culture are virtually the same within the same society.


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Question 8.
Most class perspectives on inequality have been strongly influenced by Karl Marx.

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Question 9.
Moral entrepreneurs use their own views of right and wrong to establish rules that all members of society are required to follow if they wish to avoid being called deviants.

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Question 10.
Field research in which researchers collect systematic observations while participating in the activities of the group they are studying is called experimentation.


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