Please help! Giving 23 points! 1. Annually, more than a million American students drop out of high school. This greatly reduces their lifetime income potential and in turn hurts the national economy. How might a sociologist argue that research about high school dropouts can be used to effect social change and promote social justice?
2. Nearly half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. Briefly describe how sociologists might view this situation from the structural-functional approach, the social-conflict approach, and the symbolic-interaction approach. Also indicate whether each approach takes a macro-level orientation or a micro-level orientation.
3. What is the difference between validity and reliability? Give an example of each.

4. Suppose you work at a museum that displays this photograph, which was taken by Jacob Riis in New York City in the early 1900s. You are asked to write three different one-paragraph descriptions of the photograph for three separate museum brochures.
For the first brochure, describe the photograph objectively in one paragraph that includes at least three details.

For the second brochure, describe the photograph in terms of interpretive sociology using what Max Weber called Verstehen.

For the third brochure, describe the photograph in terms of what it shows about the power of society to shape individual lives and indicate what public policy point the photographer was probably making in this photograph.