Socio 101 Q1

According to the theoretical position developed by Karl Marx, what is the engine of social change?

conflict between social groups

Émile Durkheim's study on suicide found that suicide rates went up when the economy slumped, but they also increased when the economy boomed. Which of Durkheim's concepts explains why both positive and negative economic conditions could increase suicide rates?

anomie

Max Weber believed that modern industrialized societies were characterized by which of the following institutions?

bureaucracies

Critical race theory is associated with which of the major theoretical perspectives or schools of thought in sociology?

conflict theory

Regardless of their various approaches to social phenomena, what are all sociologists trying to do?

illuminate the connection between the individual and society