A sociologist is conducting a study on a small group of poverty-stricken individuals. She understands that an individual's impoverished status results from larger economic situations and unemployment rates in the local community rather than the individual's personal problems. The ability to see the relationship between the personal troubles of the group and the larger economic situations is known
as:
A) ?social stratification.
B) ?microsociology.
C) ?the enigmatic perspective.
D) ?conventional wisdom.
E) ?sociological imagination.
E
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A. social imperatives B. social movements C. social directives D. social facts
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A. to pursue economic opportunities B. with substantial levels of social capital C. as a political prisoner D. for advanced education E. as a refugee escaping war
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a. a placenta. b. an embryo. c. a trophoblast. d. an amniotic sac.
Which statement about social media is the most accurate?
A. The use of social media is decreasing. B. Social media has no meaningful “real-life” importance. C. Young people regard social media as largely irrelevant. D. There are almost two billion Facebook users.