Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Using education as a proxy for social class, Massey illustrates the intersections between education, race, income, and gender.
2. According to Massey, an effective system of social stratification requires three basic things: a social structure that divides people into categories on the basis of some combination of achieved and ascribed traits; the labeling of certain of these categories as social out-groups; and the existence of one or more social mechanisms to reserve certain resources for in-group members while extracting other resources from out-group members.
3. Massey argues that whenever a person works to convince others in society to accept a particular categorization of social reality, the process is called enclosing.
4. Hanson, Kivisto, and Hartung explore the effects of power and inequality in the United States.
5. According to Hanson, Kivisto, and Hartung, the United States has the highest level of inequality among all the high income nations.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. True
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