Apply the functional perspective on families.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2A(n) _____ is any physical or social attribute or sign that so devalues a person's social identity that it disqualifies that person from full social acceptance.
a. deviant quality b. stigma
c. anomic identity d. label
Question 3Wealthy and successful sports figures such as LeBron James or Venus Williams would most accurately be placed in which social class?
a. middle-upper class
b. upper-upper class
c. upper-middle class
d. lower-upper class
Question 4Describe the family structure and its characteristics.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5Sociologist Robert Park coined the term __________ to refer to persons (such as immigrants) who simultaneously share the life and traditions of two distinct groups. It is the state of being part insider and part outsider in the social structure.
a. alienation b. stigmatization
c. social marginality d. anomie
Question 6In the model of American social classes based on Weber's theory, the __________ is made up of prominent families that have held great wealth for several generations.
a. lower-upper
b. new money
c. upper-upper
d. upper-middle
Question 7Summarize families in global perspective.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 8In a capitalistic society, social structure helps create a system of domination and subordination that affects certain categories of people, including owners and workers, landlords and tenants, and rich celebrities and poor nobodies. This view would be representative of which perspective?
a. Functionalist b. Conflict
c. Symbolic interactionist d. Postmodern
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