What is transcendentalism? a. the belief that a person's intuition will her reach spiritual understanding b. a period in history in which people rejected notions of love and beauty c. the idea that the human race is destined to become great through technology d. a movement in which people turned to books and rejected the beauty of nature?

Describe a situation in which you experienced unfamiliar cultural patterns. what was going on? how did this experience make you feel? does learning more about culture make encountering cultural diversity easier? why or why not?

Rank the following from most to least devasting: ordovician,permaian,cretaceous, pleistocene

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject.a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher.wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners.acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.