In the United States it is common to consume beef. In India, however, followers of Hinduism consider the cow as a holy animal that should not be harmed or eaten. An American who thinks this Hindu norm is stupid because some people in India might go hungry, is practicing:

A __________ is a stratification system in which all positions are earned based on people’s ability, talent, and educational achievements.

The emergence of airline personnel in the 1960s, who were called “stewardesses” and who were expected to be glamorous young women who acted in a flirtatious way towards male passengers, happened because:

The sociological imagination is the capacity to think systematically about how the things we experience as __________ problems are really __________ issues widely shared by others.

Socialism is __________.

In terms of job satisfaction, people almost universally tend to rate jobs as better when they __________.

How a person perceives themselves, or the ideas and attitudes they have about who they are, makes up their:

Satisfaction in work performed is invariably lower when __________.

The rational choice perspective of markets assumes that __________.

A young teen harassed on Facebook commits suicide. The media and the general public begin to discuss the case, disagreeing whether it’s a bunch of kids doing what kids always do, or whether it’s a hate crime, or bullying, or an example of free speech. As a result of that discussion, one group of parents ultimately convinces many members of the community, along with politicians to pass a law protecting kids from harassment on Facebook. This shows that what our society considers as deviant: