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1.Define and discuss democratic, authoritarian, and monarchical political systems. Detail a shortcoming of each political system.

2. What do you think is the most pressing social problem facing America throughout the term of the last five presidents and today? What do you feel is the role of the government in the process of dealing with the social problems of their time on the micro and macro levels? What do you think has shaped your views?

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Sociologists have coined the term social stratification to refer to the hierarchy that exists within societies. The phrase "social stratification" is used to describe the process of classifying people of a community based on measurable criteria such their material well-being, degree of education, job standing, and political power. A social class is a group of citizens in a community who share a comparable economic standing. Class is another synonym for social class. The notion of class, which may be described as a group of people who share comparable economic situations, is widely regarded to be fundamental in social theory and is commonly employed in domains such as censuses and studies of social mobility.

One of the advantages of social stratification is the incentive to strive for higher status and better rewards associated with higher-ranking positions. A society that unequally distributes its resources encourages its members to exert more effort and perform at a higher level in order to climb the social hierarchy. Social stratification also has an impact on lifestyle choices, life prospects, and prestige. Lower socioeconomic status individuals are more likely to experience emotional stress and depression as a result of their unequal access to income, power, and status.

The term "race" describes both the practice of assigning social significance to different groups of individuals based on the numerous sets of physical traits that separate them from one another and the concept of separating people into groups based on those sets (Flores, 2018). The culture of the people who live in a certain geographic location, including their language, ancestry, religion, and customs, on the other hand, is referred to as their ethnicity. People use racial distinctions to categorize others based on their shared or differentiated phenotypes or other shared characteristics. Sociologists believe it to be socially constructed due to the fact that these groups are examined based on the manner in which they have been treated over the course of history. Ethnicity is a complicated social construct that has an effect on both individual identification and the social dynamics within groups. The evolution of a person's ethnic identity, the systems used to categorize ethnic groups, the groupings that make up each system, and the consequences of being allocated to one ethnic category as opposed to another all depend on the time, place, and circumstances in which they arose.

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Flores, R. D., & Schachter, A. (2018). Who are the “illegals”? The social construction of illegality in the United States.  American Sociological Review,  83(5), 839-868.