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Saylor Academy ENVS 203 Sophia Sociology Milestone 1 2022
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You passed this Milestone14 questions were answered correctly.
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1
Which of the following sociologists produced research
demonstrating the challenges of the participant observation
method?
Lois Benjamin
Max Weber
W.E.B. Du Bois
William Foot Whyte
CONCEPT
Research Methods: Examples
2
Shopping and consumer spending are an important part of the U.S. economy.
A sociologist who takes the functional approach would note that shopping
and consumer spending serve important functions in American society.
When considering shopping malls, the functional approach would indicate
that a manifest function of malls is to enable purchases of necessary goods
(e.g., clothing and household items).
Which of the following is an example of a social dysfunction of
shopping malls?
Serving as a place for teens to get together
Purchasing clothing and household items
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, The development of "shopaholics" — people who go into debt due to over-
spending.
Purchasing entertainment
CONCEPT
Structural Functionalism: Manifest and Latent Functions
3
Jackie uses graphs and charts to present data on obesity in the United
States. She creates a chart showing the increasing number of children who
are obese, as well as the mean, median, and mode weights.
The type of data Jackie presents on the chart is
called __________ statistics.
spurious
descriptive
qualitative
inferential
CONCEPT
Statistics
4
One of the reasons why this perspective should be adopted is that societies
around the world are increasingly interconnected.
Which of the following perspectives best fits this description?
Micro-level orientation
Global perspective
Sociological imagination
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