Workers picking strawberries can pick 100 baskets an hour, but the value of 20 baskets is all it costs the employer to pay them their hourly wages. According to Karl Marx, the income the employer collects from the extra baskets is
a. cultural capital.
b. endogamy.
c. surplus value.
d. wealth.
Answer: c. surplus value.
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a. Anomie b. Irrational consequences c. Alienation d. None of the above
Research on tracking has found all of the following, except
a. students in the lower tracks learn less because they are taught less b. even students with the same test scores are put into different tracks according to their race and social class. c. less is expected of lower track students and so their academic performance is lower. d. detracking penalizes high achieving students.
Which of the following statements is true regarding race?
A. People arbitrarily select physical characteristics to define racial categories. B. There are clear lines dividing one racial group from another. C. More physical variation occurs between whites and other racial categories than among whites. D. Most biological differences among people are visible.
Which of the following terms refers to the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships?
A. Socialization B. Social structure C. Culture D. Social interaction