_____ theories build on the idea that societies have a life cycle, like seasonal plants, or at least a life span, like humans.
a. Evolutionary
b. Unilinear
c. Cyclical
d. Conflict
Question 2When the goals of an individual are accepted and the means of attaining the goals are made available to him or her via the social structure, Merton termed this as _____.
a. innovation
b. conformity
c. ritualism
d. retreatism
Question 3Studies find that _________ populations reside disproportionately closer to toxic sources than do Whites.
a. Asian and European
b. Native American, Hispanic, and African American
c. wealthy
d. male
Question 4Merton's structural strain theory traces the origins of deviance to
a. anomie in an individual.
b. emotional stress caused by job loss, divorce, and the like.
c. the tension between desired cultural goals and the means of achieving them.
d. the lack of any commitment to cultural goals.
Question 5In The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich argues that
a. the population projections of Thomas Malthus were totally in error.
b. quality of the environment has little to do with the growth and health of populations.
c. food production is currently so efficient that availability of food has ceased to be an issue, even on a worldwide basis.
d. worldwide population growth has outgrown food production and that massive starvation must inevitably follow.
Question 6The shooting of students and faculty at Virginia Tech University in the spring of 2007 fits the pattern of Durkheim's _____ .
a. anomic suicide
b. altruistic suicide
c. egoistic suicide
d. fatalistic suicide
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