Social Sturcture and Group Behaviour

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achieved status

• the social position a person gains as a result of personal effort

• Ascribed status is a term used in sociology that refers to the social status of a person that is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life.

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What do you understand by social stratification?

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Functionalists Theorists

• members of society are rewarded when they acquire the skills to do society's most important tasks.

• the situation is unfair and creates working class resentment.

Multiple Choice

roots of prejudice:

• psychological

• cultural

• social

• all of the choices

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three types of discrimination; unscramble the letters to form the word (GLALE)

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three types of discrimination; unscramble the letters to form the word (tunatilisinot)

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three types of discrimination; unscramble the letters to form the word (NANELOGL)

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Do you favour assimilation or cultural pluralism?

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Why do you think it is difficult for a minority group to live by rules set by the dominant group in a society?

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Categorize the following forms of negative treatment from less to more harmful. (SUBJUGATION, REMOVAL, ANNIHILATION, SEGREGATION)

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Write the four types of modern government.

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Write the world's three most common economic systems.