Many of sociology’s field research pioneers were former social workers and reformers whose successors continued to focus on sources of community cohesion and urban strain but came to view the city as a social science laboratory and adopted ______.
the work of physical scientists in a laboratory setting
survey techniques with the people they studied
the fieldwork methods of anthropology for studying the “natural areas” of the city and the social life of small towns
structured interviewing techniques with the people they studied