Which Sociologist Has Identified a Number of Social, Economic, and Political

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which sociologist has identified a number of social, economic, and political functions that the poor perform for society (e.g., poor people do society's dirty work at low cost; poverty creates jobs for those in occupations serving the poor; the existence of poor people guarantees the higher status of the more affluent) ?

• A) Herbert Gans
• B) Émile Durkheim
• C) Peter Blau
• D) Daniel Rossides

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