LaPiere's research tested the hypothesis that an attitude and its assumed behavioral manifestation will correlate positively.
a. true
b. false
Question 2There is generally a very close connection between what people say they do and what they actually do.
a. true
b. false
Question 3Durkheim measures suicide rates as suicides per one hundred inhabitants.
a. true
b. false
Question 4Breault, Hampton, and Brown conceptualized the control variable population change as a measurement of social integration.
a. true
b. false
Question 5Putnam believes that which of the following social science findings lend solid support to conflict theory?
a. Across countries, greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower social trust.
b. In Pakistan, clan, religious, and political diversity are linked with failure of collective infrastructure maintenance.
c. Across American census tracts, greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower rates of car-pooling (a social practice that embodies trust and reciprocity).
d. Within experimental game settings such as prisoners-dilemma or ultimatum games, players who are more different from one another (regardless of whether or not they actually know one another) are more likely to defect (or cheat').
e. All of the above
Question 6Evidence confirming the seriousness of a social problem is most convincing when it is ________________________.
a. inconsistent with the author's causal argument
b. drawn largely from the author's personal experience
c. reasonably objective
d. based on partisan, secondary sources
e. all of the above
Question 7Putnam's research supports the notion that diversity is an important ingredient in the building of social capital.
a. true
b. false
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