Chad Is Starting to Get Discouraged Because He Has Spent

question 77

Multiple Choice

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

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