14. Your 83-year-old grandmother has been using a computer for some time now. As a way to keep in touch, you frequently send emails of a few lines to let her know about your day. She calls after every email to respond point by point, but she has never emailed a response back. This can be viewed as an example of I. cultural lag 2. innovation 3. ethnocentricity 4. xenophobia 15. Some jobs today advertise in multinational markets and permittelecommuting in lieu of working from a primary location. This broadening of the job market and the way that jobs are performed can be attributed to: 1. cultural lag 2. innovation 3. discovery 4. globalization 16. The major difference between invention and discovery is 1. invention is based on technology, whereas discovery is usually based on culture 2. discovery involves finding something that already exists, but invention puts things together in a new way 3. invention refers to material culture, whereas discovery can be material or theoretic, like 4. invention is typically used to refer to interational objects, whereas discovery refers to that which is local to one's culture 17. That McDonald's is found in almost every country around the world is an example of: 1. globalization 2. diffusion 3. culture lag 4. xenocentrism 18. A sociologist conducts research into the ways that Hispanic American students are historically underprivileged in the American education system. What theoretical approach is the sociologist using? 1. symbolic interactionism 2 functionalism 3. conflict theory 4. etnocentrism 19. The Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 grew to be an international movement. Supporters believe that the economic disparity between the highest economic class and the mid to lower economic classes is growing at an exponentially alarming rate. A sociologist who studies that movement by examining the interactions between members Occupy camps would most likely use what theoretical approach? 1. symbolic interactionism 2. functionalism 3. conflict theory 4. ethnocentrism 20. What theoretical perspective viens society as having a system of interdependent inherently connected parts? 1. sociobiology 2. functionalism 3. conflict theory 4. ethnocentrism