Who was the U.S. sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent ...

Who was the U.S. sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?
 
  a. Robert K. Merton
  b. William Graham Sumner
  c. Talcott Parsons
  d. C. Wright Mills

Question 2

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called ________
 
  a. latent functions.
  b. manifest functions.
  c. operational functions.
  d. dysfunctions.

Question 3

The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as ________
 
  a. latent functions.
  b. manifest functions.
  c. eufunctions.
  d. dysfunctions.

Question 4

The structural-functional approach is concerned with ________
 
  a. the meaning people attach to their behavior.
  b. patterns of social inequality.
  c. the consequences of social patterns for the operation of society.
  d. ways in which each person differs from all others.

Question 5

The theoretical approach in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the ________
 
  a. structural-functional approach.
  b. social-conflict approach.
  c. symbolic-interaction approach.
  d. tradition-based approach.

Question 6

The early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim used the ________
 
  a. the structural-functional approach.
  b. the social-conflict approach.
  c. the symbolic-interaction approach.
  d. theological approach.

Question 7

Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology's structural-functional approach.
 
  a. Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, W. E. B. Du Bois
  b. Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim
  c. Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte
  d. Harriet Martineau, Robert Merton, W. E. B. Du Bois