NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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Factory workers disagree with one another
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Management practices in an office lead to go slow action
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The Minister of Labour resigns as a result of a dispute with the Prime Minister
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Trade Union leaders in the sugar and mining industries agree on wage negotiations
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to conflict theory, stratification results from lack of opportunity and discrimination against the poor and people of color. According to symbolic interactionism, social class affects how people interact in everyday life and how they view certain aspects of the social world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Conflict theory views social and economic institutions as tools of the struggle among groups or classes, used to maintain inequality and the dominance of the ruling class. Marxist conflict theory sees society as divided along lines of economic class between the proletarian working class and the bourgeois ruling class.
Detailed explanation-3: -Karl Marx based his conflict theory on the idea that modern society has only two classes of people: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie are the owners of the means of production: the factories, businesses, and equipment needed to produce wealth. The proletariat are the workers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Functionalism: argues that social stratification is needed to sort individuals into different professions and to maintain a meritocratic system of rewards. Conflict theory: argues that stratification benefits certain groups more than others through rigid systems of mobility and change.