What is the difference between racial inequality and ethnic inequality? What steps can you take to end racial and ethnic inequality? Include support from functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist solutions.
What will be an ideal response?
• Sociologists who apply functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives to the study of racial and ethnic inequalities typically offer different analyses of the problem and suggest different ways to reduce or eliminate race- or ethnicity-based injustice and inequality. Similarly, social analysts applying various political approaches to the problem provide divergent outlooks on what causes racial inequality and what the possible solutions might be to this problem.
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Which of the following statements is INACCURATE concerning single-parent families?
A. The majority of children from single-parent homes do well. B. Children of single-parent homes are two times more likely to drop out of high school as compared to children raised in two-parent families. C. Children of single-parent homes run a greater risk of unemployment as compared to children raised in two-parent families. D. Almost 75 percent of separated and divorced mothers raising children as single-parents received full child support.
Which of the following is a reason why sociobiological explanations of behavioral differences between males and females are controversial?
What will be an ideal response?
Does marriage benefit everyone equally?
A. Yes, marriage offers equal benefits across sex, race, and social class. B. Marriage may benefit men more than women, and Whites more than Blacks. C. Marriage may benefit women more than men, and Blacks and Hispanics more than Whites. D. Marriage may benefit women more than men, but equally across races and social classes.
Which of the following WAS NOT a hallmark of early feminist theory?
a. Emphasis on women’s lives and experiences b. Promotion of gender equality c. Embracement of women’s perspectives d. Social Darwinism that explains gender differences biologically