Making concessions to protestors,co-opting the most troublesome leaders,and violently repressing collective action are all examples of:

A) resource mobilization
B) political opportunism
C) social control
D) all of these choices
E) none of these choices

How do sociologists define positive deviance?

A) deviance that relates to a criminal record
B) deviance that actively harms someone physically
C) actions initially considered deviant, but later deemed appropriate
D) the acts that come with secondary deviance

Scientific medicine came to dominate health care because:

A) medical science worked,or at least seemed to work,more effectively and more often than alternative therapies
B) doctors were able to professionalize
C) many medical doctors were hostile to alternative medicine until recently.
D) all of these choices
E) none of these choices

The following figures are income shares of the lowest quintiles in four societies. Which indicates the highest level of income inequality?

A) 5 percent
B) 4.5 percent
C) 4 percent
D) 3.5 percent

Today, the United States would best be described as

A) an agricultural society.
B) a postindustrial society.
C) an industrial society.
D) no longer manufacturing any products for itself.

The organization of work in American society is shaped by the nature of businesses,social groups,and governments.The larger organizational structures that shape our lives in American society are what level of social structure?

A) micro-structures
B) social structures
C) macro-structures
D) global structures
E) meso-structures