What is a system of stratification? Compare and contrast the ways that Karl Marx and Max Weber describe the basic features of the class system.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Social stratification is a pattern in which individuals and groups find themselves in different positions that enjoy varying amounts of access to desirable goods and services.
2. Karl Max focused on class stratification. Classes are determined by means of production.
3. Max Weber focused on status and power, and claimed they do not always coincide with wealth.
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A. comparable with health outcomes in the Mexican health care system. B. about average for a less developed nation. C. among the worst in the world. D. similar to health outcomes in the Chinese health care system. E. have gotten worse in recent years.
Which would most clearly reveal someone was getting angry?
a. hands clenching into fists b. a slumped body posture c. closed eyes d. a smile
According to Ulsperger and Knottnerus' article "Enron: Organizations Rituals as
Deviance," which term describes "a repeated set of actions taken for granted by everybody in the organization as normal and proper because the actions reflect the belief that members have acquired from the organization"? a. ritualized deviance b. organizational culture c. organizational ritual d. allegorical depiction
A Conflict theorist would say that the purpose of law enforcement is which of these?
A. protect society against crime B. protect the interests and power of the dominant class. C. maintain social control. D. define our cultural value on crime.