Bureaucracy is a modern form of large association.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 2The negatively privileged property classes include all but which one of the following?
a. completely unskilled persons
b. those dependent on seasonal employment
c. those at the bottom of the class system
d. the bourgeoisie
Question 3Purposefully created special-interest groups that have clearly defined goals and official ways of doing things are called associations.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 4In her book Nickeled and Dimed, Ehrenreich tells of a colleague who becomes frantic about a painfully impacted wisdom tooth and keeps making calls from our house (we are cleaning) to try and locate a source of free dental care.. This example illustrates
a. one of the many ways inequality is enacted.
b. ideas of comparable worth.
c. a socialist system of welfare.
d. relative poverty.
Question 5When individuals alter their behavior and attitudes toward those in a group they wish to join, they are engaging in anticipatory socialization.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 6Barbara Ehrenreich studied inequality in everyday life as it is experienced by working in jobs that paid 8.00 or less. Ehrenreich's approach is one that a would take.
a. functionalist
b. conflict theorist
c. symbolic interactionist
d. modernization theorist
Question 7A reference group is a group or social category that an individual uses to help define beliefs, attitudes, and values and to guide behavior.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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