1. in some asian countries, the number 14 is considered unlucky. some building owners play it safe and skip both the thirteenth and the fourteenth floor. how would you modify the sample program to handle such a building?

Think about the items and services that you and your family buy or consume. what causes you to pay the prices that you do for these goods and services? what determines the price that's on the price tag? what goes into determining, or setting, that price? consider all the possible elements that could influence the prices you pay.

Is there such a thing as a social structure that constrains individual action, or is society nothing more than a figment of our imaginations?

Which sociologist posits that, as a society modernizes, it must rely less on tradition, and more on rational, and impersonal procedures?