Using the question prompts below as your heading, please begin each question on a new page.

1. As the saying goes, some people have more than others. However, we now see that some people have way more than others!

(a) What are the definitions of social stratification and poverty?

(b) What arc the arguments for the justification of inequality?

(c) The fact that inequality is higher and has risen in the United States than in other countries suggest that something different is going on in the United States. What are the reasons for the widening gap, and the rise in inequality, in the United States?

2. Sociologists make clear distinctions between race and ethnicity and use the terms to describe different kinds of categories and identities. These consequences are real for persons who are assigned to these concepts.

(a) What does race mean?

(b) What does ethnicity mean?

(c) What are the differences between the two concepts?

(d) What does racism mean and why does racism occur?

(e) Does racism still exist in the United States?

3. As it stands, "researchers, educators and parents alike are challenging the binary concepts of sex and gender..."

(a) What does sex mean and what does gender mean?

(b) What is meant by the social construction of gender and how is gender socialization linked to the construction of gender?

(c) Finally, how do sociologists help us to understand the gender inequalities that exist in sex and relationships?