Each of the Following Statements Is False

Essay

Each of the following statements is false. Pick XX of these statements and refute them. (You need to do more than simply say the statement is false. Explain why it is false. Provide examples if these will clarify your answer.)
a. Members of a truly closed system may experience horizontal mobility, but they will not have access to vertical mobility.
b. According to Karl Marx, one's place in the stratification system was dependent on the price one could get for selling one's labor.
c. According to Weber, people in society were stratified on their basis of their inherited wealth and the power this money gave them.
d. As the example of India proves, caste systems can be successfully outlawed if the laws change in that society.
e. In US society, everyone's dollar buys the same amount.
f. Every ethnicity has a long history.
g. As far as sociologists are concerned, women who make jokes about men being dumb are just as bad as men who make jokes about women being dumb.
h. As far as sociologists are concerned, all race-based discrimination is racism.
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