Henslin, Essentials of Sociology.10e Teatbn 9.) Frances Perkins, a sociologist,

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Henslin, Essentials of Sociology.10e Teatbn 9.) Frances Perkins, a sociologist, won the Nobel Prize for her work with the homeless in Hull-House. e aimed research on social life, until recently Harriet Martineau was best known for translating Comte's works on sociology into English. 11) Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University. 12) C. Wright Mills urged American sociologists to concentrate on social reform, developing the concept of the power elite to illustrate how top leaders of business, politics, and the military were an imminent threat to American freedom. 13) Sociologists have always agreed that the most important goal of sociology is to gencrate social change. 14) According to the principles of symbolic interactionism, symbols not only allow relationships to exist, they also allow society to exist 15) Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family 16) Sociologist Lewis Coser pointed out that conflict is most likely to develop among people who are in close relationship 17) Scientific research follows eight basic steps

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9. False. Frances Perkins did not win a Nobel Prize for her work with the homesless in Hull-House.

10. True. Despite her acclaimed research on social life, Harriet Martineau was best known for translating Comte’s works on sociology in English.

11. False. Booker T Washington was the first African American to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, not a doctorate degree.

12. False. C Wright Mills did not urge American sociologists to concentrate on social reform even though he wrote about the power of the elite.

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