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All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 13 CHAPTER 1: THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE as the father of sociology. The improvement of society was his main concern.

How does your state rate on health insurance coverage for children? 3. How might using your sociological imagination help you to explain why children in the United States have unequal access to medical care? S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2009 whites. S. court system accepting social science research as a basis for legal decisions. Subsequent research has explored a variety of related topics, including the effects of school quality on student performance, the impact of social environment on measured IQ, the influence of school desegregation on the performance of African American and white students, and the effects of busing when desegregating schools.

After parting ways with SaintSimon, Comte never found another well-paid position. He was forced to rely on intermittent activities— tutoring and testing in mathematics, for example. It was only after a few of his followers invited him to prepare some private lectures that Comte presented his ideas to the world. Comte died before very many beyond his private circle came to appreciate his work. Later, European scholars recognized and widely adopted his belief that sociology could apply scientific procedures and promote social progress.

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