Purdue University Social Inequality Patterns and Processes Questions

WRITE 250 WORDS FOR PART 1

WRITE 250 WORDS FOR PART 2

PART 1

1.Ethics: Let’s keep it simple this week:

How much do you agree with Carol Gilligan that there is a difference between a female and male ethics?Do you think this difference is largely biological or cultural (nature or nurture)? https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology2nded…

2.Trade:Explain why exchange?rate quotations stated in different financial centers tend to be consistent with one another.

3. Social inequality patterns and processes by Martin Marger https://we.tl/t-ZlAr2KB1v2

PART 2

Read The American Class System: Pages 54-77, 96-98, 105-107, and read over the Power Elite

1) Explain the growing social inequality in the United States. Focus on 2 reasons why this gap exists and why this inequality is predicted to grow. Support your claims with examples from the readings. https://opentextbc.ca/introsociology2eopenstax/cha…

2) Read over the Mill’s Power Elite and Domhoff’s Governing Class. Show in 3 ways how the power elite leverages power over the government and society, use aspects of the readings in your response. https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html

3) Watch the following TED TALK:http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html

In your own words explain what happens in a society when there is too much inequality between the wealthy and poor (such as our society.) Drawing from the Ted Talk, how can we fix poverty?