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Chapter 6
GROUPS AND FORMAL
ORGANIZATIONS 170 1 Primary and Secondary Groups 172 2 Other Groups and Networks 177 3 Types of Social Interaction 181 4 Formal Organizations 190
Chapter 7
DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL
CONTROL 202
1 Deviance and Social Control 204
2 Functionalism and Deviance 209
3 Symbolic Interactionism and
Deviance 214
4 Conflict Theory and Deviance 218 5 Crime and Punishment 224
Unit 3
Social Inequality 238
Chapter 8
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION 240 1 Dimensions of Stratification 242 2 Explanations of Stratification 250 3 Social Classes in America 254 4 Poverty in America 259 5 Social Mobility 265
Chapter 9 INEQUALITIES OF RACE
AND ETHNICITY 274
1 Minority, Race, and Ethnicity 276
2 Racial and Ethnic Relations 280
3 Theories of Prejudice and
Discrimination 284
4 Minority Groups in
the United States 290
Chapter 10
INEQUALITIES OF GENDER
AND AGE 308
1 Sex and Gender Identity 310
2 Theoretical Perspectives
on Gender 316
3 Gender Inequality 322
4 Ageism 330
5 Inequality in America’s
Elderly Population 333
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