What do we learn about the relationship between status and performance from William F. Whyte's study of street corner groups?

What will be an ideal response?


We learn that the relationship between performance and status is counterintuitive. While one might expect for status to follow from high performance, it appears to be the other way around. Group member's expectations for us often determine our actual performance at a given task

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The wealthiest 5 percent of U.S. families own about what percentage of privately owned property?

A) 15% B) 50% C) 65% D) 0%

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Although they recognize that conflict, disharmony, and division occur within societies, order theorists stress cooperation, harmony, and

a. polarizing. b. consolidating. c. solidarity. d. organizing.

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One who coordinates people by bringing them together and organizing their performance

What will be an ideal response?

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Even if stratification is inevitable, the functionalist explanation for differential rewards does not explain the wide disparity between the rich and the poor.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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