Which two theorists have taken an evolutionary position on social change, suggesting that all societies move in a definite direction toward a higher state of being?
A. Karl Marx and Ralf Dahrendorf
B. Talcott Parsons and Gerhard Lenski Jr.
C. Auguste Comte and Émile Durkheim
D. Richard Berk and Howard Aldrich
C. Auguste Comte and Émile Durkheim
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Among the figures responsible for raising environmental awareness were all except:
a. Theodore Roosevelt b. John D. Rockefeller c. Henry David Thoreau d. Herman Melville
One of the more accurate ways to measure changes in men's and women's respective criminal activity is to
A) study only crimes known to the police. B) look at how many crimes each sex commits annually and calculate for each the percentage increase or decrease from year to year. C) calculate sex-specific arrest rates (the number of arrests per 100,000 of the population) and then determining the sex differential in arrests. D) none of the above
In The Other America, Michael Harrington is critical of what element of postindustrial societies proposed by Daniel Bell?
A. the emphasis on consumerism B. the significance of blue-collar workers C. the emphasis on poverty as a moral failure D. the significance of white-collar workers
W. E. B. Du Bois pioneered a systematic study of
A. urban class structures. B. black urban life. C. Hispanic communities. D. urban poverty and homelessness.