It took many years of dedicated commitment to the organization, persuasion, and demonstration by the leaders of the civil rights movement to convince significant numbers of Americans that separate schools for black and white children resulted in
inequality. This fact illustrates __________. a. that social structure has lost its relevance over the past several decades
b. the importance of power in the definition of social problems
c. that the lack of voting rights was a personal trouble experienced by a few people
d. a lack of consensus on a solution to a social problem
Question 2
Many people are poor because they were raised in poverty, or choose to drop out of school, or have a baby before they are financially prepared to do so. These facts reveal __________.
a. Durkheim's study of suicide did not go far enough
b. social problems tend to affect women more than men
c. social problems are often closely related
d. the fallacy of the sociological imagination
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Possible Earth 5 billion years from now
The declining age of menarche over the past 150 years has been measured in many European countries,
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