Ashford SOC 402 Week 1 Quiz

1.       Activist Ida Wells believed that the issues of civil rights and suffrage were inherently connected

2.     The famous group of social theorists of the 1920s and 30s who were from universities in and around Chicago was dubbed the Chicago School.

3.     American physicist Thomas Kuhn argued that no empirical evidence is completely ____________.

4.     A sociologist lets her subjects, a group of retirees, tell her stories about their workplace experiences. This is an example of a(n) __________ interview.

5.     In his General Theory of Action, Talcott Parsons identified four levels of social interaction. These are:

6.       __________ suggests that inequalities among people are natural and an inevitable consequence of society

7.     The study of layoff and reemployment trends of Mexican-Americans in California would be conducted by a

8.     That Baby Boomers have influenced how retirement communities are designed, organized, and governed is an example of a demographic trend.

9.     The first African American to earn a doctorate degree at Harvard University was the famous sociologist and educator

10.  A conscious and collective attempt to enact social change is called a