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1. A minister who is opposed to war conducts a nonviolent protest at a local military installation, thus committing a trespassing violation. This person has engaged in
retreatism.
ritualism.
rebellion.
innovation.
2. According to social scientist Barry Krisberg, __________ is the possession of what is most valued by a particular social group in a given historical period.
emancipation
freedom
democracy
privilege
3. In a bureaucracy, each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one. This characteristic of a bureaucracy is known as
division of labor.
impersonality.
hierarchy of authority.
rules and regulation.
4. For a person who strongly believes in the value of human rights and equal opportunity, which of the following would not constitute a reference group?
Ku Klux Klan
American Civil Liberties Union
National Organization for Women
Council on Racial Equality
5. According to the text, Solomon Asch’s experiment demonstrated that
group pressure encourages independent decision-making by participants.
studies of male college students can be generalized to other populations.
people will bow to social pressure in small-group settings.
people will not say (or do) things simply to gain the approval of other people.
6. According to the functionalist perspective, deviance is universal because it serves all of the following important functions, except
deviance clarifies rules.
deviance prevents social chaos.
deviance promotes social change.
deviance unites a group.