Explain how the social context at different times during the twentieth century influenced the theories sociologists developed and utilized.
What will be an ideal response?
• Given the transformational power of industrialization and urbanization, both processes were a focus of theory and many theorists utilized the scientific rationality of The Enlightenment to study these processes
• World War I inspired many social theorists to turn their attention to social problems, including colonialism
• Activism during the progressive era compelled many to incorporate race, class and gender into their analysis of social problems
• The Great Depression revitalized Marxist thinking which had been largely suppressed by “red scares”
• The uncertainty of World War II’s outcome compelled many theorists to question progress
• After a Great Depression and Great Wars, people (including social theorists) turned their attention to achieving order and rationality
• Social theory was not immune to the radical 1960s and started to question “the order” of the post war world which culminated in a questioning of modernity in general
• Today, questions of consumption and globalization dominate both our world and the social theories being developed to explain that world
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a. applied research. b. descriptive research. c. basic research. d. quantitative research. e. evaluation research.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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