Seek to understand the experience of inequality how it is communicated and how that inequality is ...

seek to understand the experience of inequality  how it is communicated and how that inequality is conveyed.
 
  a. Functionalists
  b. Conflict theorists
  c. Symbolic interactionists
  d. Modernization theorists

Question 2

In order to function properly, groups benefit from focusing on defining boundaries, choosing leaders, and allowing these characteristics to emerge in an organic fashion.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 3

Which one of the following questions do conflict theorists ask to highlight the problems with the functional perspective of social stratification?
 
  a. How can we attract the best qualified people to fill the most functionally important positions?
  b. Will the most qualified people be attracted to the less functionally important occupations?
  c. How much inequality in salary is really necessary to ensure that people choose the most important positions in society?
  d. Why do the disadvantaged lack the motivation to acquire the training needed to fill the most important positions in society?

Question 4

Secondary groups have specific goals, formal organization, and much less intimacy than primary groups.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 5

The question Why should fulltime workers at a child care center (a traditionally female occupation) receive a median weekly salary of 386, while a person working as an auto mechanic (a traditionally male occupation) earns 704? relates to issues of
 
  a. pay equity.
  b. comparable worth.
  c. functional uniqueness.
  d. status consciousness.