Author Question: Sociologist Herbert Gans claimed that inequality benefits a. everyone by making society more ... (Read 309 times)

nummyann · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Sociologist Herbert Gans claimed that inequality benefits

a. everyone by making society more productive.
b. rich people by ensuring there is a supply of poor people willing to do almost any job, no matter how unpleasant.
c. bureaucrats by expanding government assistance programs.
d. corporations because poor people are a profitable market.

Question 2

During the 1920s and 1930s, sociologists at the University of Chicago linked poverty to a breakdown in social order due to rapid social change. The correct name for this view is

a. the bell curve thesis.
b. the culture of poverty thesis.
c. the social disorganization thesis.
d. the hypersegregation thesis.