Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the "Chicago School" of sociology in the early 1920s?

a. It focused on description by collecting facts about how people lived in a particular community within a broader theoretical framework.
b. It saw the city as a "social laboratory.".
c. It saw the larger society as a living organism with certain needs that had to be met if it were to survive.
d. The main concern was the issues of racism and social conditions in minority communities.


D

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