What event convinced Americans that some societal level changes were needed to address poverty among the elderly?

a. World War II
b. World War I
c. The Great Depression
d. A series of ethnographic studies by sociologists in the 1940s


C

Sociology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

Which statement about the definition of deviance is TRUE?

a) Deviance should include only important violations of the norms. b) All sociologists agree that deviance includes mundane, routine, and normal violations of the norms. c) Deviance is not an important subject anymore. d) Sociologists cannot agree on a precise definition of deviance.

Sociology

In the divorce process, the crisis of actual physical separation follows:

a. the decision to divorce. b. a period of mental conflict and reconstruction. c. an attempt to work out the problems of co-parenting. d. the actual divorce.

Sociology