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Who helped launch the discipline of sociology by studying the evils of slavery and also by translating the writings of Auguste Comte?

A) Harriet Martineau
B) Jane Addams
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D) Dorothea Dix

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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C.Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed

A) common sense into laws of society.
B) people into supporters of the status quo.
C) personal problems into public issues.
D) scientific research into common sense.

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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U.S.sociologist C.Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis foster widespread sociological thinking.

In the United States, African Americans have a higher suicide rate than whites.

The last of Comte's three stages is the metaphysical stage, in which people know the world in terms of God's will.

College students in the U.S.tend to come from families with above-average incomes.

Distinguish between the manifest and latent functions of any specific social pattern.

Revolutionary changes in European societies sparked the development of sociology.

Do you see any dangers in adopting the sociological perspective too intensely? For example, if we say that society is at work in all of our choices about how to live, do we lose any sense of personal responsibility for our actions?

Three campus roommates are talking about why they are in college.A sociological view of going to college highlights the effect of

Explain some of the personal benefits of learning to use the sociological perspective, including career advantages.

The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad terms.

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages

Sociology is useful training for any job that involves working with people.

Which concept is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior?

Understanding how society operates benefits only the most privileged people.

Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology's structural-functional approach.

Since beginning this course in sociology, how has your view of the world changed? Provide one specific example of something in your life that you see differently now compared to before you started this course.Is this change a good thing? Explain.

Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behavior.

The sociological perspective reveals the truth of the "common sense" beliefs we tend to take for granted.