Author Question: Which of the following ideas is central to the symbolic interactionist paradigm of social life? ... (Read 63 times)

Alygatorr01285 · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

Which of the following ideas is central to the symbolic interactionist paradigm of social life?

a. Class conflict is the major characteristic of society.
b. Social life is constructed through acts of social communication.
c. Society is essentially a web of group affiliations.
d. The many groups and organizations that make up a society form the structure of that society.

Question 2

In Beyond the Melting Pot, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan concluded that:

a. assimilation occurs first among groups that share the same religion and later among groups with different religions
b. ethnic groups become assimilated into American society in the order in which they first arrived in the United States
c. ethnicity does not disappear as a result of assimilation
d. racial and ethnic assimilation is inevitable