Author Question: Chad is starting to get discouraged because he has spent a lot of time and energy working for social ... (Read 15 times)

tatyanajohnson · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Chad is starting to get discouraged because he has spent a lot of time and energy working for social change, but does not think he has made much of a difference. He is comforted by the words of Frances Fox Piven, the sociologist, who noted, in regard to predicting social movements that __________.

A) they come every fifty years
B) most of the really important work has already been done
C) no one can successfully predict when they will occur
D) social movements are not really necessary anymore

Question 2

Erica, a senior sociology major, looks to the civil rights movement and the history of labor unions in the United States to support her conclusion that __________.

A) only governments can enact social change
B) social structure is deterministic
C) individual people have agency and can change the status quo
D) all of the necessary social changes have been accomplished