Which of the following statuses demonstrate that it is difficult to draw a firm line between ascribed and achieved statuses?

A. Occupation and education
B. Social class and gender
C. Age and occupation
D. Being a parent and being a student


Answer: B

Sociology

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a. to spread the burden of assisting the poor throughout the metropolitan area b. to encourage decentralization of urban areas c. to reduce the need for corporations or service industries to concentrate their facilities in one neighborhood d. to promote more neighborhood stability and higher property values

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A person who uncritically accepts the ideas that water should run the entire time one showers and that it is absurd to conserve water while showering as people in some cultures do, is considered

a. culturally relative. c. ethnocentric. b. culturally clueless. d. monocultural.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What is false consciousness?

What will be an ideal response?

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