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Conflicts related to how the work gets done are called ________ conflicts.

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Correct Answer: Process

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Conflict that relates to the content and goals of work is called ________ conflict.

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Correct Answer: Task

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________ conflict relates to the content and goals of the work.

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Correct Answer: Process conflict

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Individualistic cultures tend to be _________ context cultures.

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Correct Answer: Low context cultures

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Which term is defined as a tool for understanding how society operates?

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Correct Answer: Theories

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According to Karl Marx, the owner of a textile factory would be considered a member of which group?

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Correct Answer: The bourgeoisie

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Social constructionists study society's problems by examining ______.

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Correct Answer: Social systems

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As children recognize that they are distinct individuals with unique opinions, preferences, and habits, they develop a sense of ______.

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Correct Answer: Self

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According to Émile Durkheim, post-industrial societies generally operate more like a(n) ______, which he refers to as organic solidarity.

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Correct Answer: Organism

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What term best describes what individuals do when they attempt to control how others evaluate them?

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Correct Answer: Impression management

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Which statement describes the purpose of theoretical perspectives?

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Correct Answer: Theoretical perspectives share certain common ways of perceiving social patterns.

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The ______ perspective allows sociologists to examine the interactions between individuals in a small group.

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Correct Answer: Symbolic interactionist

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In Marx’s ______ stage of social development, all citizens would be equal and able to achieve species being.

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Correct Answer: Tenth

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Which statement best describes the primary difference between a microscopic and a macroscopic level of analysis?

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Correct Answer: A microscopic level of analysis focuses on an individual or small groups, while a macroscopic level of analysis focuses on the larger societal forces at play.

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Before an important meeting, you prepare by reviewing pertinent information and thinking about possible questions that you will be asked. Erving Goffman would point out that you are a social actor performing ______.

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Correct Answer: On the back stage

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Conflict theorists advocate for ______ to alleviate social injustices.

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Correct Answer: Rapid social change

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The concept of ______ holds that modern societies are comprised of interdependent parts that work together for the common good.

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Correct Answer: Structural functionalism

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Which group tends to ignore conflict and inequality within society?

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Correct Answer: Structural functionalists

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Individuals work to promote society’s interests instead of their own due to ______.

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Correct Answer: Social solidarity

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When the proletariat are no longer in false consciousness and are aware of how they are being mistreated and misled then its called as

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Correct Answer: True Consciousness

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A set of ideas used to explain how or why certain social patterns occur is called as

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Correct Answer: Theory

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Groups of theories that share certain common ways of “seeing” how society works is called as

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Correct Answer: Theoretical Perspective

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Symbolic Interaction is Viewing society as a _______ by individuals through their use of shared symbols.

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Correct Answer: All of above

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A view of modern societies as consisting of interdependent parts of working together for the good of the whole is known as

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Correct Answer: Social Functionalism

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Sets of statuses and roles that focus on one central aspect of society is called as

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Correct Answer: Social Institutions

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Social Constructionism Holds that every society creates _____ , and symbols it finds meaningful and useful.

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Correct Answer: All of above

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Self is Sense of self, the knowledge that one is unique, separate from every other human.

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Correct Answer: True

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Socialization that occurs in childhood is called as

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Correct Answer: Primary Socialization

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Small collections of people of which a person is a member, and in which deep emotional ties develop.

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Correct Answer: Primary Groups

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Presentation of Self is Efforts to shape the ______ messages we give to others to achieve impression management.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Focuses on either an individual or small groups is called as

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Correct Answer: Micro Level of Analysis

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Means of production is _______ needed to produce products.

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Correct Answer: Both of these

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Obvious and stated reasons that a social institution exists is called as

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Correct Answer: Manifest Functions

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Macro Level of Analysis is Focuses on the ______ societal forces.

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Correct Answer: Large-scale

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Latent Functions are ______ consequences of an institution.

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Correct Answer: Unintended

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_______ is Where an interaction actually takes place.

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Correct Answer: Front Stage

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Proletariat were being mistreated and misled by the owners of the means of production is called as

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Correct Answer: False Consciousness

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Dysfunctions are Unintended consequences of _____patterns.

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Correct Answer: Behavioral

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The characteristics of a group or society that make it distinct from other groups and society is called as

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Correct Answer: Culture

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Tensions and conflicts arise when _____ are not distributed equitably.

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Correct Answer: All of Above

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All citizens would be equal and able to fulfill their unique potential to imagine and create what we imagine is Known as

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Correct Answer: Communism

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______ is Where one prepares for an interaction.

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Correct Answer: Back Stage

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Alienation is A theoretical concept to describe ________ effect(s)

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Correct Answer: All of above

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