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Questions

1. Positions within a Social stratification system may be ranked according to class, status, or power. How do these dimensions of stratification vary? Why are many positions similarly ranked along all three? What is a status inconsistency?

2. Define social stratification in identify the systems of social stratification.

3. Discuss structural functionalist, conflict theorist, and symbolic interactionists theories on race and ethnicity

4. Explain the different ways minority groups are created.

5. Discuss Primordial Theory and Critical Race Theories on race and ethnicity.

6. Explain the difference between race and ethnicity, prejudice, discrimination and racism and give an example for each.

7. Describe the differences between Tönnies's Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. How do they compare to Lenski's society types?

8. Gender is often important in family structure and decision making. How are families affected by whether they are matriarchal, patriarchal, or egalitarian? How are living patterns affected by whether newlyweds follow matrilocal, patrilocal, or neolocal residence? What is the importance of matrilineal, patrilineal, or bilineal tracing of descent? Which of all of these is typical of the United States?

9. Compare the results of the tracking system, teacher expectations, and differences in school funding as explanations of lower achievement levels by low-income students. Which factors appear to be most important in explaining these lower achievement levels? What are the results of such inequality in terms of the screening function of education?

10. Discuss the theoretical perspectives taken on religion by Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.