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piesebel

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Your textbook authors assert that, Sociology is always wrestling with two immense and seemingly contradictory questions, social order and social disorder (pg 3). Identify and explain, with examples, the
 
  view illustrated by this statement, and explain what this has to do with common sense.
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to Piven and Cloward, the social control function of public assistance programs is to
 
  a. offer employment skills to the poor.
  b. defuse social unrest in times of mass unemployment.
  c. alert the unemployed to alternative means of employment.
  d. establish social change.



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Answer to Question 1

A good essay will identify the Both/And view, give examples such as high rates of both divorce and remarriage or high rates of poverty in a wealthy country, and discuss how the fact that these contrasts or opposites can simultaneously exist is not common sense.

Answer to Question 2

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Wow, this really help


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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