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According to the text, who make up the working class?

Sociology is the study of what?

You are a waiter at a restaurant. A researcher wants to better understand the effect of tipping on service provided by wait staff. Therefore, the researcher chooses to use your restaurant for an experiment and hopes to be able to generalize from the experiences you have to those of waiters in other restaurants. In this example, you are part of a what?

You are a sociologist interested in education. You argue that education generally works to the benefit of the rich because the poor are encouraged by the education system to believe in the economic system they live under. What kind of social theory are you using?

Which of the following defines “functionalism”?

You are a sociologist who claims that gender has very little to do with the sex organs of the body. Instead, humans “read” gender through objects like clothing, hair, and so on. What kind of social theory are you using?

You are a social theorist who claims that the dominant popular culture of a society works to make the working class docile by encouraging them to have trivial desires rather than more significant freedoms. What approach are you using?

A dyad has how many members?

When Angela is at home, she speaks in her parents native language and dresses conservatively. However, when at college, Angela mostly speaks English and dresses similarly to her peers. What is Angela engaged in?

You apply for a job as a social worker and get the job. You later find out that you got the job, in part, because of your fluency with the Mandarin Chinese language. Which of the following helped you get the job?