Questions/Tasks: What are the determinants of social status and class in the United States. What are the characteristics of the different social classes in the United States? Apply the sociological perspectives of structure/functionalism and conflict to stratification and class. Is it inevitable that social structures form? Is it inevitable that easily observable differences such as gender-differences or racial-differences will be used as the basis of social structure? Using the structure-functionalist approach, explain how future business firms will be organized The Situation Zimmerman, Ann (2000, November 10). If Boys Just Want To Have Fun, This May Bring Them Down --- Teenage Girls Go for T-Shirts That Belittle the Fellows; Is Turnabout Fair Play? The Wall Street Journal. (Eastern Edition). A1. Available in Proquest at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=63503534 & sid=1 & Fmt=3 & clientId=29440 & RQT=309 & VName=PQD on August 26, 2008. Lawson, John K (1994, Oct/Nov). A Vision of Workplace 2000. Executive Speeches. 9(2) 34-40. Available in ProQuest at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=15525 & sid=1 & Fmt=3 & clientId=29440 & RQT=309 & VName=PQD on February 24, 2008. Hints: In this module, you are studying social stratification with a concentration on how gender is used as a basis for discrimination. There is no special reason why I chose gender as the subject for the case (I could have just as easily chosen Race, Age, or Religion as the basis of stratification and/or discrimination). In module 1, you encountered several approaches to understanding sociological phenomena. In particular, you learned about a "structure-functionalist" and a "conflict" approaches. This case gives you another opportunity to use that approach. Submit your 2-3 page paper to Coursenet. Note that this assignment does NOT require you to prepare a detailed essay. Instead use section headings for each of the topics you address in your paper followed by a discussion of that topic.