Race as a Social Construction
CLEP Sociology – Chapter 10 Race as a Social Construction CLEP Introductory Sociology · Chapter 10 Race is a system of socially defined categories based on meanings attached to selected physical traits. Human biological variation is real, but racial boundaries do not divide humanity into fixed, naturally ranked types. Societies choose which features matter, draw […]
Mobility, Opportunity Structures, and Mobility Tables
CLEP Sociology – Chapter 9 Mobility, Opportunity Structures, and Mobility Tables CLEP Introductory Sociology · Chapter 9 Social mobility is movement within a stratification system. Vertical mobility changes rank upward or downward. Horizontal mobility moves between positions at roughly the same rank. A job change is therefore not automatically upward mobility. The researcher must name […]
