People's _____ are their ideas of what is desirable in life.
a. values
b. mores
c. taboos
d. folkways
Question 2Today, employers use diplomas and degrees as
a. latent functions.
b. a form of payment.
c. manifest functions.
d. sorting devices.
Question 3From Murdoch's classic cross-cultural survey, we can see that
a. nothing about biology requires men and women to be assigned different work.
b. women in the developing world never work in construction.
c. biology itself is what requires men and women to be assigned different work.
d. hunting was an exclusively male activity.
Question 4A formal organization tends to develop into a(n)
a. theocracy.
b. informal organization.
c. irrational group.
d. bureaucracy.
Question 5The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that
a. languages are universal.
b. some languages, such as English, are superior to others.
c. perception and language are unrelated.
d. language has ways of looking at the world embedded within it.
Question 6_____ are the unintended consequences of people's actions.
a. Manifest functions
b. All functions
c. Latent functions
d. Only negative results
Question 7A(n) _____ has a formal organization, hierarchical authority, and a clear division of labor.
a. information society
b. feudal society
c. bureaucracy
d. traditional society
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