Which sociologist has identified a number of social, economic, and political functions that the poor perform for society (e.g., poor people do society's dirty work at low cost; poverty creates jobs for those in occupations serving the poor; the existence of poor people guarantees the higher status of the more affluent)?
A. Herbert Gans
B. Émile Durkheim
C. Peter Blau
D. Daniel Rossides
A. Herbert Gans
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What did industrialization accomplish?
A) Industrialization improved the status of the elderly. B) Industrialization transformed the elderly from productive and respected to deprived and disgraced. C) Industrialization offered more jobs to older workers than to younger workers. D) Industrialization created a growing elderly population.
Which of the following is NOT one of the ideal-type characteristics of bureaucratic organizations, as specified by Max Weber?
a. Division of labor b. Hierarchy of authority c. Impersonality d. Employment based on personal reputation
____ is a type of assimilation in which the culture patterns of immigrants from other nations change to become consistent with culture patterns that are historically British or British-American in origin
a. Melting pot b. Anglo-conformity c. Cultural pluralism d. Cultural relativism e. Subjugation
When hostile behavior is directed at a target that is convenient but not really the cause of the hostile person's frustration, that target is termed a:
a. martyr b. scapegoat c. substitute target d. symbolic target