Sociology Final - Stratification

- author of dime novels that told rags to riches stories; building on tenacity, hard work, and eventual achievement of the American Dream- books: Sink or Swim; Up the Ladder; From Boy to President

Books like Sink or Swim, Up the ladder, and from boy to president contribute to the.......that all americans could make it if they only pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

True/False: Horatio Alger Story is a myth.

Abe Lincoln, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are all examples of what story?

Self imposed tutelage, western history wanted to do away with premordialism, dare to think (immanuel kant) were all apart of what?

True/false: forms of stratification vary

This takes the form of different classes in the U.S.

Global distribution of wealth and poverty is revisited

The structured social inequality or systematic inequalities or ranking of people in society

In 2008, who made 206 million dollars

How much did Obama make?

What years were the Scottish Enlightment

He said that emergence of private property is the primary source of social ills and that social inequality is the condition where there are no differences in wealth, power, prestige or status based on non-natural conventions

This person believed that inequality kept the population in check

These people saw inequality as necessary