Émile Durkheim’s notion of organic solidarity refers to a feeling of aimlessness or despair provoked by modern social life.

Durkheim referred to social cohesion typical of modern societies as _____, a state of interdependency created by the specialization of roles in which individuals and institutions become acutely dependent on one another in a complex division of labor.

Tom develops a questionnaire for his study on Facebook usage that allows users to indicate whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with various statements. These types of questions are known as

Sociologists recognize that “personal” troubles, if occurring in patterned ways and to large numbers of individuals, reflect

In Jeff’s sample, the number of siblings each person has is as follows: one, two, three, four, and ten. What is the mean number of siblings in his sample?

In Durkheim’s functionalist analysis of society, he saw society as analogous to _____.

The social cohesion that fans feel at a baseball game when their team wins is an example of a(n) ________ function.

Karl Marx differs from Émile Durkheim in that Marx

Wesley conducts research that involves meeting with subjects in a controlled setting. He treats some subjects kindly but behaves rudely to others. He notes how the different groups react to his behavior to make inferences about how people react to kindness and rudeness in certain situations. His research would best be described as

When two variables are analyzed and the correlation coefficient is calculated to be –0.9, what does this mean?