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mpobi80

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In recent cases in the United States, older women employed as teachers have been prosecuted for having sexual relationships with young male students under the age of consent. If we believe in Durkheim's theory, which of the following would we seek to explain this social problem?
 
  a. how individual mental disturbances could be generalized
  b. how female teachers are influenced by norms and social ties
  c. how single women adapt to environmental opportunity
  d. how working-class youth are exploited by better educated classes
  e. how the symbolic segregation of students and teachers is a pattern

Question 2

According to functionalists, poverty exists because
 
  a. the poor are largely unmotivated to work.
  b. it contributes in some way to the stability of an existing social order.
  c. the poor lack the drive to do better.
  d. somebody has to be on the bottom.



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heinisk01

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

b




mpobi80

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Reply 2 on: Jul 1, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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