Compare and contrast wealth and income.

What will be an ideal response?


Wealth is the total value of a family’s financial resources minus all debts. Income includes earnings from work or its substitutes, like pension, disability, unemployment insurance, or social assistance. Wealth is a special kind of money because it represents ownership and control of resources; income is essentially earnings or payments that replace earnings.

Sociology

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The unofficial caste system in South Africa includes the Untouchables

a. true b. false

Sociology

___________ Theory that argues that in collective situations people lose their individuality and become swept up in the behaviors of others

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

When faced with a complaint from their partner, men tend to withdraw emotionally while women do not. This response is so common that therapists have named it the "__________ pattern."

a. refusing-to-accept-influence b. female-demand/male-withdraw c. sabotage d. belligerence

Sociology

The discrepancy between cultural norms and people's actual behavior is called:

a. sanctioning. b. mores. c. deviance. d. folkways.

Sociology