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What is the primary difference between a subculture and counterculture?

In pre-industrial societies men tended to hunt and women took care of domestic or home responsibilities.  These gender roles were partially created in response to demands such as pregnancy that left women at home nursing.  During this period of time these gender roles were effective at maintaining order in the family.  Later, changes in economy led to changes in gender roles such as women being required to work outside the home too, and kept the family balanced.  This scenario represents which theoretical framework?

How is culture accomplished?

Culture is no longer contained by geographic boundaries and allows someone to practice culture anywhere they exist in the world even if the host country uses a completely different language.  The fact the reality of culture is simply what any person makes of it represents which of the following theoretical paradigms?

All of the following are disadvantages to experiments EXCEPT:

When a researcher works as a server in a diner, lives as a homeless person for months, or regularly joins police officers for “ride alongs” on patrol to record their daily activities it is called:

Match the three laws of Inertia with their corresponding definitions.

Constructivism is an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively create it to be.

The first tenet of symbolic interaction states meaning is handled in and modifed through an interpretive process used by the person in dealing with things he or she encounters.

Macro-sociology focuses on large-scale phenomena such as organizations and institutions whereas micro-sociology focuses on small-scale phenomena such as self, identity, and small-group interactions.