Researchers of Social Mobility,including Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan

question 39

Multiple Choice

Researchers of social mobility,including Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan in the 1960s and William Sewell and Robert Hauser in the 1980s,have shown that:

• A) educational attainment has a great deal to do with ultimate social status
• B) the family's social status has little to do with social mobility
• C) social position is not inherited but solely achieved
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Functionalism

A sociological theoretical viewpoint that sees society as a complicated system with components that collaborate to foster cohesion and stability.

Social Order

The organized and patterned social arrangements which are maintained through social, legal, and political institutions to provide a sense of stability and predictability to societal members.

Conflict Theory

A theoretical framework that views social and economic differences as the cause of division and conflict in society, emphasizing power dynamics and material inequality.

Sexual Violence

Any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, acts directed against a person's sexuality, regardless of the relationship to the victim.