Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the Chicago School of sociology in the early 1920s?
a. It focused on description by collecting facts about how people lived in a particular community within a broader theoretical framework.
b. It saw the city as a social laboratory..
c. It saw the larger society as a living organism with certain needs that had to be met if it were to survive.
d. The main concern was the issues of racism and social conditions in minority communities.
Question 2Segregation that is enforced by unwritten norms is:
a. de facto segregation
b. de jure segregation
c. expulsion
d. genocide
Question 3During the late 1920s the major focus of the Chicago School of American sociology was:
a. macro-level analyses of social structure and change
b. middle-level analyses designed to make workers more productive by modifying the structure of work organizations
c. the historical factors that brought about industrialization
d. the relationship between the individual and society
Question 4Which of the following was responsible for putting an end to legally-sanctioned segregation in private accommodations and the sale of housing?
a. Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka
b. Endo v. United States
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Question 5The most common form of empirical research carried out during the early history of American sociology was:
a. field experiments
b. laboratory experiments
c. social surveys
d. personality testing
Question 6Which of the following Supreme Court decisions upheld the doctrine that the incarceration of an entire ethnic group without a hearing or formal charges was unconstitutional?
a. Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka
b. Endo v. United States
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. Wade v. Rowe