Social mobility refers to:
a) social networking connections which can be a valuable source, including a resource for job leads.
b) the hierarchical ranking of categories of people within society.
c) movement from one social class to another.
d) oversimplified sets of beliefs about a group of people.
e) the process of interaction whereby individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, norms, and values of their society.
C
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a. the middle class b. poor people c. children d. blacks
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A. functionalist perspective B. conflict perspective C. interactionist perspective D. feminist perspective
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a. social facts. c. means of production. b. solidarity. d. the sociological imagination.
According to Shepard, the most common pattern of ethnic conflict is ____
a. subjugation b. melting pot c. genocide d. Anglo-conformity e. assimilation