Myth of meritocracy - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Why were parents killing so many infants? - ANSWER -food crisis: crops failed about every 3 years What changed with infant mortality? - ANSWER -food supplies improved -banning of child labor -no reason to have lots of children -only have children to love them social stratification - ANSWER how society gets divided (top and bottom) status inheritance - ANSWER how you inherit the status of your parents stratification - ANSWER the study of social inequality Conservatives believe_...

ANTH 103 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL COMPLETE AND SOLVED SOLUTION STUDY GUIDE 1. Anthropology has long studied the marginalized and remote segments of human society. Recently, a lot of research has begun to look at the upper segments of society, which can help us understand how the other marginalized groups come into being and exist at all. What is this process called? a. studying up c. deep ethnography b. marginalization d. thick description 2. Archaeology, t...

SED2601 - Sociology Of Education Exam Pack. Outline two reasons why marketisation policies may produce inequality of educational achievement between social classes. Answer:  cream-skimming; successful schools can attract higher achievers, who are more likely to be middle-class.  silt-shifting; successful schools can avoid taking less able, largely working-class pupils, who thus end up in low-achieving schools. Question Outline three reasons for gender differences in educational ac...