Explain the difference between income inequality and social inequality.

What will be an ideal response?


Varies. Social inequality: a high degree of disparity in income, wealth, power, prestige, and other resources. Income inequality: differences in income between highest and lowest earners and the structures in place that reproduce differences in income.

Sociology

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Lewis, Valentine, and Harrington agreed that all people would desire the same things and cherish the same __________if they were in an economic position to do so

A) values B) social capital C) material culture D) ideologies

Sociology

The refusal of Christians to accept Islam as a valid religion is a form of ________, while the sincere effort to understand the practice of having multiple wives in some societies is a form of ________

A) public sociology; culture shock B) value contradiction; value cluster C) ethnocentrism; cultural relativism D) culture shock; cultural diffusion

Sociology

Which is the phrase used to describe economic and social forces that limit personal choices?

a. media overload b. mass confusion c. structural constraints d. cultural baggage

Sociology

__________ consists of showing favoritism toward one gender over the other

a. Gender preference b. Sexual harassment c. Gender bias d. Sexual discrimination

Sociology