单选题 . ①W.E.B Du Bois' exhibit of African American history and culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle attracted the attention of a world of sociological scholarship whose value his work challenged. ②Du Bois believed that Spencerian 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 affect social progress but merely to theorize. ③In his exhibit, Du Bois sought to present cultural artifacts that would shift the focus of sociology from the construction of vast generalizations to the observation of particular, living individual elements of society and the working contributions of individual people to a vast functioning social structure.

5. 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.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】 A：本题考查的是斯宾塞社会学家的理论，因此选项A正确，对应第②句。
B、C、E：这三项均是杜波依斯的观点，而非斯宾塞社会学家的观点。
D：既不是杜波依斯的观点也不是斯宾塞社会学家的观点。