The systematic ranking of different groups of people in a disparate hierarchy is referred to as ______.

A. social stratification
B. social inequality
C. class differences
D. class status


Ans: A

Sociology

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Student-led campus boycotts across the United States in 1999 and 2000 targeted

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Field observation differs from some other models of observation in that it's a different type of data-collecting activity and also a(n)

a. experimental method. b. method for testing precisely defined hypotheses. c. expansion of the sampling methods used in quantitative analyses. d. theory-generating activity. e. outdoor experimental method for testing hypothesis

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