According to Chapter 12, How Is a Sociological Approach to Work

Multiple Choice

According to Chapter 12, how is a sociological approach to work and the economy different from the economic approach to work and the economy?

A) Economists tend to study how people and social groups use scarce resources to produce and sell commodities. Sociologists study the way work and the economy are organized as well as the values, norms and attitudes of work and economic organization.
B) Economics gives most of its attention to market processes. Sociology is interested not only in exchange theory, but also how economic institutions relate to other institutions of social life.
C) Economics takes a narrower focus than sociology.
D) Economics privileges the market sphere over other spheres of social activity. Sociology focuses its attention on the interrelationship between many social spheres.
E) All of the above