Robert Merton's contributions to sociology include
successfully combining theory and research
an analysis of deviant behavior that focuses on societal goals and means
an attempt to bring macro- and micro-level analyses together
all of the above
In the book "Society in America", which early sociologist gave special attention to status distinctions and to such factors as gender and race?
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Auguste Comte
Harriet Martineau
A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey?
interviews
questionnaires
representative samples
observation techniques
Which sociological perspective views society as a network of connected parts, each of which contributes to the maintenance of the system as a whole?
functionalist perspective
conflict perspective
interactionist perspective
dramaturgical approach
In his study of suicide, Émile Durkheim was primarily concerned with:
suicide rates and how they varied from country to country
personalities of individual suicide victims
means people used to take their own lives
effects of suicide on the families of victims
Which of the following is most closely associated with the concept of the sociological imagination?
Émile Durkheim
Karl Marx
Wright Mills
A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing:
a manifest function
a latent function
a dysfunction
a manifest dysfunction
Karl Marx's view of the struggle between social classes inspired the contemporary:
