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Getting Started in Sociology, 3rd Edition - Latest Downloads

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<strong>in</strong>dividuals, over the course of their lives?<br />

2: WHO RULES AMERICA?: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class<br />

2. How does the set of socializ<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>stitutions for upper-class males differ <strong>in</strong> composition from the set that<br />

socializes upper-class females?<br />

3. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the author, the upper class have managed to <strong>in</strong>sulate themselves and their way of life from the rest<br />

of us, despite the passage of a few hundred years and significant social changes there<strong>in</strong>; for example, <strong>in</strong> regard<br />

to equal rights for women and m<strong>in</strong>orities. In your op<strong>in</strong>ion, can anyth<strong>in</strong>g be done to dismantle the rigidity of the<br />

class structure <strong>in</strong> our society? If “yes,” what sorts of social action do you recommend be taken to accomplish<br />

this? If “no,” why are changes <strong>in</strong> the class structure impossible, <strong>in</strong> your view?<br />

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