The assumption that class divisions have more to do with how well people live than do divisions between racial and ethnic groups is used in which economic theory of discrimination?

a. Gary Becker's theory
b. Split Labor Market theory
c. Marxist theory
d. Relative deprivation theory


ANS: c

Sociology

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