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It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School.  Mike’s teacher is anxious to meet his parents and discuss his habit of disrupting the class.  When the teacher expresses her concern that Mike is not being socialized properly, his dad insists that he was the same way at Mike’s age and that disrupting the class is natural for the children in his family. Mike’s teacher and father are arguing about which fundamental sociological theory?  

Baby Marla is always well dressed. She has ribbons, bows, and frills all over her dresses and even in her hair. Her mother, who is worried that people might mistake Marla for a little boy, is determined to communicate to the world that she has a baby girl. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit?  

Have you taken an anatomy and physiology class before this class?

Welcome to BSC 1020 Introduction to Human Biology! I hope you’re excited to learn about the anatomy and physiology of the human body. What is your reason for taking this class?

What is required to access the course?

Confederate states passed Jim Crow laws that required segregated facilities for blacks and whites. These laws were codified (arranged according to a plan or in a systematic way) in 1896’s landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which stated that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional, and it continued for five decades. True or False?  

How many tests are in this course?

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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.