Author Question: Joe Smith believes that people who can afford the price of a house should be free to live where they ... (Read 77 times)

mp14 · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

Joe Smith believes that people who can afford the price of a house should be free to live where they choose. However, when it came time to sell his house his neighbors convinced him to sell it to whites only. In Robert Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination, Smith would be classified as a:

a. cautious bigot
b. strong liberal
c. true bigot
d. weak liberal

Question 2

A major flaw in the functionalist perspective is the contention that:

a. human nature is too unpredictable.
b. human societies rarely experience equilibrium.
c. it fails to take into account human instincts.
d. it is not scientific.