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Assignment: Instructions: Choose one question from each of the question sets below (2 sets total). In other words, you will be answering two questions total (1 from each set).

Question Set 1: • Explain the difference between income inequality and wealth inequality in the United States. Explain the racial wealth gap.

• What is social stratification? Examine four common ways or systems in which groups have become stratified. How does race or ethnicity play a role in the stratification?

• Briefly compare and contrast a Weberian approach and a Marxian approach to characterize the social classes in the United States. In a Weberian approach, what are social classes based on or how are they understood? In a Marxian approach, how is class understood? In a Weberian approach, how is the racial wealth gap understood? In a Marxian approach, how is the racial wealth gap understood?

Question Set 2: • Explain some characteristics of the U.S. poor based on age, gender, and race or ethnicity. Predicts people's relative chances of being poor based on age, gender, or race, for example.

• Explain the Gini index and its relationship to global inequality. Compare the Gini coefficient for the United States with that of other nations.

• What is global stratification? Examine global stratification's relationship to economic inequality.

Writing Requirements (APA format): • Length: 1-2 pages (not including References page)

• 1-inch margins

• Double spaced

• 12-point Times New Roman font

• Running header in the upper left of all pages

• Page number in the upper right of all pages

• Parenthetical in-text citations included and formatted in APA style

• References page (at the very least the textbook and/or online lessons should be cited)