This type of status is a position created by humans.

This type of status is a position created by humans.
 
  A. Social
  B. Ascribed
  C. Achieved
  D. Master

Question 2

Someone makes a resolution to go to college with the plan to take internet courses and pay people to complete the course work. According to Merton's typology of responses to structural strain this response qualifies as
 
  a. innovation. c. rebellion.
  b. retreatism. d. ritualism.

Question 3

People exert no effort to attain this type of status.
 
  A. Social
  B. Ascribed
  C. Achieved
  D. Master

Question 4

Retreatism is a response to structural strain that involves
 
  a. creating new goals and the means to achieving them.
  b. accepting both cultural goals and legitimate means to achieving them.
  c. accepting cultural goals but rejecting the means to achieving them.
  d. rejecting both cultural goals and the legitimate means to achieving them.

Question 5

Amith Ben-David and Yoav Lavee interviewed _________.
 
  A. Saudis
  B. Kuwaitis
  C. Iraqis
  D. Israelis

Question 6

Sociologist Robert Merton observed that at each income level Americans want just about 25 percent more because there is no clear point at which they can feel secure. The situation creates
 
  a. conformists. c. structural strain.
  b. pure deviants. d. competition.