SOC 201 Chapter 13: Chapter 13.4
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Even young children understand and believe this logic at least, that is what sociologists scott cummings and del taebel discovered from their survey of school children. Here"s how one of their young respondents explained the logic of the american stratification system: People are poor because they are not educated enough to know that there is something for them out there; that they can make money. They are ignorant and uneducated; a lot of them just don"t care. If you really want to have some money, you can get it no matter how poor you have been. If equality of opportunity does exist, an individual"s class origins should not determine the level of his or her economic and social achievements. One of the most ambitious attempts to test the validity of this rationale began in. 1968 with the panel study of income dynamics, in which researchers followed. 5,000 families and their children over the course of 20 years.
