Describe homelessness in the United States
What will be an ideal response?
Homelessness is a condition in which people do not have regular housing and are forced to sleep in public shelters or other facilities. It is difficult to estimate the number of homeless in the United States or any other urban industrial society. The homeless population is made up of single men, families, mentally ill, drug and alcohol abusers and those who are included in this group because of severe poverty.
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What is the term for gathering information and evidence using one's senses to experience the social world?
A. empiricism B. netnography C. paradigm D. sample
Key principles of data collection using the scientific method include:
a. objectivity b. replicability c. functionality d. a and b above e. none of the above
A __________ is a socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain expectations, rights, and duties, and it exists independently of the specific people occupying the position
a. role b. label c. status d. class
Sociologists would consider _____ to be a form of _____ deviance.
A. crime; informal B. crime; formal C. rudeness; formal D. rudeness; inherent