Question

Terry, a sociology major, decides that his senior project will be to explain to lower-class people how they are being exploited by those who control the means of production.
In terms of social stratification, Terry is most likely a(n) ______.

Answer 1

Answer:conflict theorist

Explanation:

Conflict theorists believe that in a battle or competition over limited resources those who have power and wealth dominate over those who are powerless and poor.

Social stratification which put people into different classes based on their socioeconomic status has created inequality in which those with power influences even the process of decision making by the government. They make laws that the will oppress the poor.

They always work towards things that will only benefits them and suppress those who are poor.

Everyone is working towards accumulating wealth for themselves whilst the poor may even work for less whilst those with wealth keeps accumulating more.