Distinguish between a social group and a social category. What ...

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Distinguish between a social group and a social category.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A major difference between the modern multinational corporation and seventeenth-century trading firms like the Dutch East India Company is that:
 
  a. early trading firms had access to more capital
  b. early trading firms were much more powerful corporations
  c. modern corporations are not granted exclusive rights to trade with other nations
  d. modern corporations are likely to rely on military conquest to achieve their goals

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Answer to Question 1

A social category is a collection of individuals who are grouped together because they share a trait that is deemed by the observer to be socially relevant. A social group is a plurality of people whose members are recruited according to some membership criterion and are bound together by a set of membership rights and mutual obligations.

Answer to Question 2

C