Why Are Sociologists Today Less Likely to Utilize the Value

question 37

Multiple Choice

Why are sociologists today less likely to utilize the value judgments of "success" and "failure" when assessing a movement's effect on society?

• A) The term "outcome" recognizes a broader range of effects, including unintended consequences.
• B) Theorists cannot use the words "success" or "failure" without being intellectually dishonest.
• C) Future movements must always take up where past movements leave off.
• D) Movements evolve in ways that prevent sociologists from finding points in time where such judgments "stick."

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Definitions:

Overeating

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Cognitive Sex Difference

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Spatial Behavior

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Verbal Fluency

A cognitive function that facilitates the ability to rapidly retrieve and produce words within specific parameters or categories.