According to the conflict perspective on gender stratification,______________________
a. women diminish their earning capacity when they leave the labor market to engage in childbearing and child-care activities
b. the gendered division of labor within families and in the workplace results from male control of and dominance over women and resources
c. women are naturally attracted to service positions that require less training and pay less
d. gender stratification can be explained using the human capital model
b
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A social-conflict analysis suggests that schooling in the United States developed in the late nineteenth century because that was the time that
a. factory owners needed an obedient and disciplined workforce. b. immigrants had to learn English in order to work in factories. c. the country had to teach immigrants that its way of life was right and good. d. All of these responses are correct.
What percent of foreign-born Latinos send money abroad to aid relatives?
A) 54% B) 17% C) 14% D) 27%
Which one of the following statements about minority status is false?
a. A minority may be the numerical majority in a society. b. Minorities do not enjoy the freedom or the privilege to move within the society in the same way that members of the dominant group do. c. People that belong to a minority group are treated as a category, not as individuals. d. Minority status is a sociological term that applies exclusively to racial and ethnic groups.
_____________ coined the term sociology and was key in the development of a general theory of the social world.
a. Émile Durkheim b. August Comte c. Karl Marx d. Max Weber