Blog

How many tests are in this course?

Where are the course announcements posted?

Social stratification refers to a society categorizing its people into rankings based on factors like wealth, income, education, family background, and power. Geologists also use the word “stratification” to describe the distinct vertical layers found in rock. Typically, society’s layers, made of people, represent the uneven distribution of society’s resources. Society views the people with more resources as the top layer of the social structure of stratification. Other groups of people, with fewer and fewer resources, represent the lower layers. An individual’s place within this stratification is called _________________________________.

Solomon Asch concluded that there are two main causes for conformity: people want to be liked by the group or they believe the group is better informed than they are.

Chris, a mortgage loan manager, works for a bank that targets minorities for high-risk loans to charge higher interest rates. The action of the bank is best described as _______________________________.  

A caste system is a closed system of stratification in which people are born into their social standing and will remain in it their whole lives. People are assigned occupations regardless of their talents, interests, or potential. True or False?  

Strain theory is an example of functionalism because it states deviance arises from a lack of ways to reach socially accepted goals by accepted methods. True or False?

What is particularly unique about the United States middle class?  

When are my Office Hours?

Joseph and Paula are excited to welcome their child into the world. They cannot wait to pass on all their knowledge, insight, and rich culture. Just as their parents gave them guidance and showed them how to live, Joseph and Paula will continue the chain by handing down their societal values and thus, sustain the society they love so much. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit?