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| According to C.W Mills, what do we call those who rule societies around the globe? |
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| Were the elites in the Roman Empire visible? |
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| Who are some U.S Power elites? |
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| Walton Family of Walmart, Hilary Clinton - Cabinet Secretary, U.S. Army Chief Raymond Odierno. |
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| According to C.W. Mills, why were dramatic social changes always resisted by elites? |
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| Fear of change in structure |
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| *Marger* Since 1965's mass immigration era, most immigrants come from? |
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| *Marger* Out of the three tiers in the U.S, who is the top tier? |
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| Euro-American Protestants |
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| *Gilbert* Dick Cheney is an elite. This illustrates... |
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| What theory states that we are a reflection of our society and learn crime from others? |
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| What is an example of whit collar crimes? |
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| What theory of poverty was influenced by social Darwinism? |
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| Why did Max Weber support Bureaucracy |
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| Bureaucracy has a clear division of labor and is impersonal. |
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| What is Weber's viewpoint on the relationship between class and status? |
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| Sometimes they are interdependent, other times they are independent of each each other. |
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| What are some reasons we need formal politcal institutions |
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| Cultural heterogenity, industrial division of labor, anonymity, and individualism |
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| Who suggests that interests groups play a big role in the decision making process in the U.S? |
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| What are some groups that use lobbyists? |
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| Colleges, trade Unions, banks, insurance companies. |
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| Paris Hilton is an example of what type of inequality? |
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| Societies where communities owned means of production were in a stage of? |
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| According to the structural functional perspective, legitimization of social, economic, and political imbalance leads to.. |
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| Social integration in a society |
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| According to Jenks , what are some variables that contribute to half of the variance in occupational attainment? |
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| Fathers income, parent's education, income and race. |
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| What were some reasons given by the author in the book for rising wage of inequalities? |
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| Economic restructing, expanding trade, changing technology |
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| What do Franks and"Cook mean by "Winner Takes All? |
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| Only a few executives at the top enjoy the maximum benefits of the capitalist system. |
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| What is the social creation of arbitrary grouping of individuals? |
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| What is making a judgement of other individuals by using one's own standard? |
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| What nation is a pluralist state? |
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| Indian and Pakisanti children label themselves as ABCD in the U.S. What type of crisis is this? |
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| Gradual adoption of culture of larger groups leading to the complete loss of racial identity is? |
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| What is internal colonialism? |
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| Domination of one group of people by another group of people in the same country |
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| Class based theory refers to which theory? |
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| Which theoretical framework blames people of Rwanada for their own poverty? |
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| What is a popular view on poverty? |
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| The poor are lazy and have bad work ethics |
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| The song "Brother, can you spare a dime?"reflected which time period? |
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| According to Durkheim, the break down that occurs during national disasters and war is called |
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| According to Durkheim, suicide bombing is and example of? |
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| Too much integration in a society |
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| According to Thomas Hobbies, what is the state oof nature of human kind? |
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| Brutal, cruel, and animalistic. |
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| According to Freud, what personality part s entirely based on socialization? |
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| How is crime and punishment reflected in modern societies? |
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| Criminal Justice is class biased |
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| According to Merton, a gap between available resources and promoted aspirations and goals lead to? |
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| What did William Bonger say about Crimes and Class? |
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| People from all classes commit crimes but the rich are rarely punished |
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| What are criticisms of Lombrosos's theory on crime? |
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| Poor research methodology, no control group. |
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| What percentage of the U.S. receives government assistance? |
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| Why are GNP and average income not good indicators of poverty? |
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| It does not reflect the average individual or household |
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| Which theory on poverty is biological? |
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| The 1960's is known as the era of? |
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| According to Davis and Moore, why is social stratification good? |
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| Stratification is a functional necessity. Certain positions are important and require special talent, skill, and training. Social systems develop means to assign occupational positions |
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| What are some criticisms that conflict perspectives have on Davis and Moore's theory on social inequality? |
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| Functional significance is a cultural phenomenon. Social stratification leads to status quo and conflict. |
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| Who pays the largest amount of taxes in MI? |
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| Where does the funding for welfare states features come from? |
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| Taxes collected by the state |
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| Income tax is what type of tax? |
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| What are some examples of biological social difference? |
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| Why does the functional perspective claim that a country's negative population growth is not good? |
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| In the long run those societies are in danger of disappearing. |
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| According to functional perspective, which level of functions preformed by social systems describes international trade? |
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| The story of David and shake was to illustrate? |
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| According to Jean Piaget, young children experience the outside world through looking, sucking, listening during what stage? |
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| Before formal education, how was knowledge transferred? |
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| According to the "Looking Glass Theory" which personality characteristics are biological? |
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| Not creativity, survival, mechanisms or manners |
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| Which behavior is influenced by socialization? |
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| After the fall of the Roman Empire, which system dominated Europe? |
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