Read the Vignette and Answer the Questions That Follow

question 19

Multiple Choice

Read the vignette and answer the questions that follow.
A sociologist is interested in studying the causes of suicide in society.She begins her research by developing a project in which she asks suicide survivors to discuss their reasons for attempting suicide and the personal and social conditions that led to their decisions to attempt the act.In a second project,she examines another researcher's survey data from a national sample of U.S.citizens.She found that depression is associated with the desire to commit suicide but many people who think about committing suicide never make any attempt to do so.She also found that people who have experienced a stressful life event,such as a job loss or divorce,are more likely to report the desire to commit suicide.

-Shirley Brice Heath's research on the socialization of status and race among whites and blacks in the rural Piedmont Carolinas is important because it shows __________.

• A)how social class does not shape how we interact with other people
• B)how historical and social conditions can affect our day-to-day interactions
• C)that white people have an advantage over African Americans in getting into good colleges
• D)how working-class people are less intelligent than the middle class,regardless of race

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