How Would Sociologists Explain the Concept of Social Closure

question 63

Multiple Choice

How would sociologists explain the concept of social closure?

• A)Social closure provides for greater unity within a society as members interact equally and work together to meet societal goals.
• B)Groups with social closure provide benefits only to the society they serve.
• C)Social closure serves to provide all groups with resources in society.
• D)Groups operating with social closure are designed to maintain a status by excluding lower status members of society.

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Definitions:

Alternative Hypothesis

An alternative hypothesis is a statement in hypothesis testing that is directly tested and proposes a statistically significant difference between data sets.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information involved in estimating a parameter or calculating a statistic, often related to the sample size.

Interaction Effects

Occur when the effect of one independent variable on a dependent variable changes depending on the level of another independent variable.

Main Effects

The direct, independent impacts of individual independent variables on a dependent variable in the context of factorial designs.