It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary…

It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School.  Mike’s teacher is anxious to meet his parents and discuss his habit of disrupting the class.  When the teacher expresses her concern that Mike is not being socialized properly, his dad insists that he was the same way at Mike’s age and that disrupting the class is natural for the children in his family. Mike’s teacher and father are arguing about which fundamental sociological theory?  

Baby Marla is always well dressed. She has ribbons, bows, an…

Baby Marla is always well dressed. She has ribbons, bows, and frills all over her dresses and even in her hair. Her mother, who is worried that people might mistake Marla for a little boy, is determined to communicate to the world that she has a baby girl. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit?  

Confederate states passed Jim Crow laws that required segreg…

Confederate states passed Jim Crow laws that required segregated facilities for blacks and whites. These laws were codified (arranged according to a plan or in a systematic way) in 1896’s landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which stated that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional, and it continued for five decades. True or False?