What did Robert K. Merton call social processes that contribute to the on-going operation or maintenance of society?
a. social functions
b. manifest functions
c. latent functions
d. paradigms
e. perspectives
Question 2
Myra is from Mexico but is now a U.S. citizen. She speaks both Spanish and English, but speaks only English in public because she imagines people will think she an undocumented immigrant if she speaks in Spanish. Symbolic interactionists would call Mayra's assessment of how others see her as an example of
a. social order.
b. self preservation.
c. the negotiated order.
d. self awareness.
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