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Interviewer bias may occur because of a researcher's sex, race, or perceived ethnicity.

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True

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Applying the scientific method to the social world is called empiricism.

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False

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Researchers are violating people's privacy when gathering information from Facebook because the Internet is technically a private domain.

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False

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A correlation simply means that two or more variables are present together.

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True

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Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family.

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True

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Karl Marx thought of himself as a classical sociologist, a label that greatly influenced his theories on class conflict.

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False

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Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University.

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False

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For an independent variable to be the cause of an event, it must precede that which is changed (the dependent variable).

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True

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Despite her acclaimed research on social life, until recently Harriet Martineau was best known for translating Comte's works on sociology into English.

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True

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According to Max Weber, the \"sign\" Calvinists looked for as an indication they were saved was their successful investment in capital.

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True

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Because of their close-knit structure and separation from modernization, the Old Order Amish have been able to resist all change that has challenged the core values of their community.

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False

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In studied nonobservance, the individual in a compromised position is able to successfully rationalize the reason for his or her awkward behavior.

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False

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Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate their existence, even after their initial purpose has been fulfilled, through a process called bureaucratic ritualism.

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False

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Stereotypes deeply influence how we react to one another.

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True

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As the size of a group decreases, the likelihood for diffusion of responsibility also decreases.

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True

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The sociological significance of social structure is that it guides our behavior.

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True

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To belong to a group is to yield to others the right to make certain decisions about our behavior.

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True

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Diversity in the workplace is based almost exclusively on skin color and race.

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False

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When Professor Jones is before his class lecturing, he has assumed the front stage, based on the terminology used in dramaturgy.

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True

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All master statuses are achieved statuses.

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False

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By definition, subcultures are a threat to the mainstream culture.

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False

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A group's way of thinking, including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world, is classified as material culture.

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False

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Because America is made up of many different groups, it is classified as being a pluralistic society.

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True

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According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, language is nothing more than common sense expressed in words and gestures.

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False

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A person who professes a belief in freedom and equality but also demonstrates behavior that is sexist and racist is involved in a value contradiction.

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True

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Language allows culture to develop by freeing people to move beyond their immediate experiences.

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True

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When on \"moral holiday,\" norms are expected to be broken.

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True

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Madagascar's cultural practice of famadihana, dancing with the dead, is an example of what Robert Edgerton would have considered an inferior cultural practice that does not deserve the application of cultural relativism.

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False

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Sociologists agree that human behavior has been bred into us through evolutionary principles.

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False

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Culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us.

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True

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Because of the power of peers and social institutions, we are all prisoners of socialization.

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False

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Without language there can be no culture, no shared way of life.

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True

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The term \"total institution\" refers to a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and where they come under almost total control of the officials who are in charge

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True

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Freud assumed that what was male was \"normal\" and that females were \"inferior, castrated males.\"

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True

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The \"corridor curriculum\" often emphasizes racism, sexism, illicit ways to make money, and \"being cool.\"

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True

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The latent function of formal education is to teach knowledge and skills, such as writing, reading, and arithmetic.

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False

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The advent of Lara Croft and other women of action has clearly divided children with an interest in action films into two camps - one supporting male characters and the other the supporting emerging female characters.

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False

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Mead emphasized that in order to learn to take the role of the \"other\" a child must pass through three stages - imitation, play, and team game

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True

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The research of sociologist Melvin Kohn and others demonstrates that the differences in the supervision of children are a matter of the race and ethnicity of the parents more than any other factor.

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False

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The research of Melissa Milkie demonstrated that there is little difference today in how boys and girls interpret the cultural expectations of gender.

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False

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