How Do Institutions, Such as the Workplace, Places of Worship

question 6

Multiple Choice

How do institutions, such as the workplace, places of worship, schools, family, and the like maintain the hierarchy of social inequality?

• A) Institutions consist of rules and structures that define what is permissible and what is not, and what is a legitimate issue or problem and what is not.
• B) Institutions consist of bureaucracies that control the message and so are the center of power. Increasingly, social inequality is a bureaucratic construct.
• C) They do so via professionals who create a hierarchy of information, its interpretation, its application in power relationships, and, so legitimate the social structure.
• D) Institutions do so by hiring individuals with biases that increase inequality.

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