All of the Following Are Arguments Against the Functionalist Interpretation

question 33

Multiple Choice

All of the following are arguments against the functionalist interpretation of social inequality except:

• A) those who obtain higher education should be paid more because of the amount of job preparation that they have.
• B) not all people in a society are motivated to maximize their wealth.
• C) some populations do not have equal opportunities to compete for positions.
• D) stratified societies do not always give the most valuable positions to those who most deserve them.
• E) it is fundamentally an ethnocentric argument.

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