Using conflict theory, discuss how the educational system maintains social class positions of groups and allows the elite to remain in control.

What will be an ideal response?


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a. provide extensive benefits to workers. b. are typically taken by teenagers. c. require no particular training or experience. d. offer little pay and low security.

Sociology

According to Cherlin, the debate over marriage promotion includes all of the following except

A. the wisdom of imposing a particular moral view of family life on those with other lifestyles. B. the autonomy of women. C. the authority of men. D. keeping the family wage system working.

Sociology

The discussion of social change the last 100 years, and in the life of Iris Summers, shows that:

a. the world is changing much more slowly than in centuries past b. a disaster that will probably end the human race as we know it is imminent c. some things today are more like they were a hundred years ago than fifty years ago d. social change is neither linear nor cyclic, but more like an oscillating wave

Sociology

What have research studies suggested about gender differences and "being in love"?

a. Men want "passionate sex" rather than "passionate love." b. Women are less resilient after a breakup than men. c. Men fall in love more quickly than women. d. Women fall in love more quickly than men.

Sociology