What is the difference between informal and formal social control?
What will be an ideal response?
Informal social control is self-restraint because of fear of what others will think, while formal social control includes administrative sanctions such as fines, expulsion, or imprisonment.
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Explain how school systems vary in the United States and other countries in terms of the centrality of the planning and decision making
What will be an ideal response?
What was Kinsey's greatest contribution to the study of sexual orientation?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following accurately represents stratification in the United States?
A. Before the abolition of slavery, the United States was a racial caste system because unless a slave escaped or was freed by his or her owner, it was usually a permanent condition. B. Few people are at the lower level of the stratification hierarchy in the United States. C. It is relatively easy to move upward from working class to upper class as long as you earn an education and work hard. D. Many middle-class Americans have experienced upward mobility in recent decades.
Life in New York City today is an example of which form of social organization?
A. urban solidarity B. Gemeinschaft C. Gesellschaft D. mechanical solidarity