Social stratification

Question 1

Theory of intersectionality

Answer 1

proposes that we need to understand how all these discriminations (double or triple jeopardy) can simultaneously exist.

There are many types of discrimination, such as discrimination based on gender, race, or class.
Some people experience overlapping categories of discrimination, such as discrimination in gender and race (e.g., female, Hispanic).
Higher mental health risks for individuals who are discriminated in two or three stratification categories can be referred to the “double jeopardy” or “triple jeopardy” hypotheses.

Question 2

structuralist perspective

Answer 2

aiming to provide equal education and training opportunities for all social groups (aiming for structural changes), is a structuralist perspective.

Question 3

social disorganization theory

Answer 3

states that the conditions of a neighborhood shapes the likelihood that a person in that environment will become involved in street crimes.

links crime rates to the environmental influences of a neighborhood.

Question 4

Marxist theory

Answer 4

Marx believed that workers (the proletariat) would come to realize that capitalists are the source of their oppression.
Marx believed that the workers would unite as the proletariat class and become free of their oppressors.
Marx argued that what holds back the workers’ unity and revolution is the presence of “false class consciousness”, where workers mistakenly identify with the interests with the capitalists.

Question 5

according to Karl Marx

Answer 5

1) factory workers become a mechanistic part of a social class.
2) factory workers are estranged from their humanity, also referred to as the alienation of labor
3) factory workers lose their ability to determine their destinies and the ability to own goods they produce.