In the United States, the major function of the Horatio Alger myth is to:
a. eliminate the need for formal education
b. legitimize the current patterns of inequality
c. make the class system more open
d. motivate the poor to work harder
B
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a. Postindustrialization b. Cybernation c. Globalization d. Modernization e. Bureaucratization
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