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Question #: 3
Topic #: 1

W. E. B. Du Bois's exhibit of African American history and culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle attracted the attention of a world of sociological scholarship whose values his work challenged. Du Bois believed that sociological sociologists failed in their attempts to gain greater understanding of human deeds because their work examined not deeds but theories and because they gathered data not to effect social progress but merely to theorize. In his exhibit. Du Bois sought to present cultural artifacts that would shift the focus of sociology from the construction of vast generalizations to die observation of particular. living individual elements of society and the working contributions of individual people to a vast functioning social structure.

The passage implies that Du Bois attributed which of the following beliefs to Spencerian sociologists?


A.

Theorizing is important to the understanding of human actions.


B.

Vast generalizations have limited value.


C.

Data gathering is a relatively unimportant part of sociological research.


D.

Sociology should focus on the living elements of society rather than cultural artifacts.


E.

Particulars are more important than universals.


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