A Sociologist Is Conducting a Study on a Small Group

question 66

Multiple Choice

A sociologist is conducting a study on a small group of poverty-stricken individuals. She understands that an individual's impoverished status results from larger economic situations and unemployment rates in the local community rather than the individual's personal problems. The ability to see the relationship between the personal troubles of the group and the larger economic situations is known as:

• A) social stratification.
• B) microsociology.
• C) the enigmatic perspective.
• D) conventional wisdom.
• E) sociological imagination.

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Definitions:

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