The philosophy department secretary duplicated 100 copies of a philosophy
assignment this week and entrusted them to the teaching assistants. Yet the
last few students to leave class on Wednesday found that all the homework
sheets had already been taken. Because only 81 students have registered for
the class this term, it must be the case that the teaching assistants cannot be
trusted to carry a handful of papers across campus without losing some of them.
1. What is the IQ that is motivating the reasoning that is presented in this
passage?
2. What is the conclusion that the author comes to in this passage?
3. What support for this conclusion is presented in this passage?
4. List two serious rivals to the conclusion.

Chapter 1 what is the sociological perspective? why did durkheim say that some people are more likely to commit suicide? what does it mean that sociology us to see that “things are not as they seem"? what is the "sociological imagination"? how did industrialization and urbanization lead to the development of sociology? who is the "father" of sociology (and coined the term sociology)? what was the major goal of sociology’s pioneers like comte and durkheim? what did herbert spencer say? what did karl marx think caused social change? when did sociology become established as an academic discipline in the u.s.? what did w.e.b. dubois say was the major problem of the 20th century? what is the functionalist view of society? what is the main focus of the conflict perspective? why are gender and race important to the conflict perspective? what is the symbolic interactionist perspective? chapter 2 why is culture vital to human survival, and how is that different from animal instinct? what is the sapir-whorf hypothesis? what is a norm? what are mores and folkways? how does the u.s. compare to other nations in terms of how multicultural or culturally diverse it is? what is a subculture? what is a counterculture? what is cultural lag? can you give an example? what is the ethnocentrism vs. cultural relativism debate about?

Which is the best description of how a scholarship differs from a federal education grant?

Why would someone who is studying the history or culture of this time. find this text interesting important or useful?