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Viewing people as ``social atoms`` that obey rather simple rule (which are not unlike the laws of physics), one may discover certain (i)_____. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii)_____ movements, one person begins to follow another-in an effort to avoid collisions-and streams of movement emerge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii)_____.
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Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to _____ themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them even when those conditions change drastically.
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The description of Green`s scholarship as (i)_____ is grossly misleading: while her research on interstellar particles is not especially novel, the conclusions she draws from her data are (ii)_____.
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The passage suggests that biologists who say egg production in birds is biologically highly costly would agree that clutch size is determined primarily by
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Select the sentence in the passage that offers a possible explanation for a trend.
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In the passage, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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Although the courts have ______ an extremely flexible test for determining the admissibility of expert testimony, that does not mean that all experts will be allowed to testify.
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The idea that Jim was ______, that he loved fighting for the sake of fighting, was a mistake, in reality he was a kind and gentle person.
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The passage implies that Du Bois attributed which of the following beliefs to Spencerian sociologists?
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The author suggests which of the following about Heckert`s research?
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There is a revelation on almost every page of this book, and the author`s prose is _____ in the best possible way: blunt, sweet, off-kilter, and often quite funny.
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Select the sentence in which the author articulates the benefits of a tendentious research approach.
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In the argument given, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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According to the passage, critics approach Jane Austen`s work in biographical or historical ways for which of the following reasons?
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In the 1980s, many historians sounded urgent calls for (i)_____ in American historical writing, as longer and longer monographs on smaller subjects were being written-dazzling studies, but pieces of a puzzle no one was putting together. This scholarship was not illuminating the central themes of history but (ii)_____.
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Shirky argues that the Internet (i)_____ the needs for hierarchical structures and the sluggish organizations that (ii)_____ them: the Internet makes it possible to do things cheaply and efficiently on one`s own.
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Not only is the field of behavioral genetics strewn with (i)_____ findings, but even among those findings that managed to survive, many have turned out to be (ii)_____ a very restricted class of cases.
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The wonder of Amy Chapman was her _____, her tenacious devotion to certain causes.
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Notwithstanding that the _____ of local branch banks has been so much predicted, in most countries the number of branch banks has increased over the past decade.
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This book, a more (i)_____ version of a highly technical report, is designed for the layperson, yet it is nothing if not (ii)_____: it grapples with very complex questions about the world economy.
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