What is the difference between Karl Marx’s conceptualization of stratification and Max Weber’s?
- What is the difference between Karl Marx’s conceptualization of stratification and Max Weber’s?
- How did the cultural attitude toward the proper role of racial, ethnic, and religious identity in America change from the early 20th Century to the early 21st Century?
- What is the difference between “ascribed” and “achieved” characteristics, as these terms are used in sociology? Give a couple of examples of each.
- Summarize Milton Gordon’s three models for understanding American diversity in one sentence each.
- Explain: “The Jew is the antisemite’s Rorschach ink-blot.”
- Explain “scapegoating” as part of the etiology of bigotry.
- How did Emile Durkheim use the distinction between “sacred” and “profane” to explain social solidarity?
- How do secularism and atheism differ from each other regarding the validity and social functions of religion?
- What is the actual relationship between religion and the public realm (“church” and “state”) in America?
- Why can’t one prove a religion’s position on an issue by citing verses from its sacred literature?
- What are some of the factors that make Uniform Crime Reports not really uniform?
- What is “anomie,” and how is it a source of criminality?
- How does imprisonment contribute to recidivism?
- In what sense are we all, in Margaret Mead’s phrase, “immigrants in time?”
- Explain and illustrate why we cannot predict the future simply by extrapolating current trends.
