Answer any TWO (2) Questions
Explain your answers. Do not just list your main points.
1. (a) Distinguish between a caste system and a class system. Clearly bring out their similarities and differences.
(b) Outline the characteristics of the various social classes (and their subdivisions) in the United States.
2. (a) What are the consequences of belonging to a social class in the United States on the following aspects of life: health, education, family life, child rearing, politics, arrest and conviction, and values and attitudes?
(b) Outline and explain the various factors that have facilitated and can facilitate upward mobility.
3. (a) Outline the various forms of the family in the United States today.
(b) Explain the causes of divorce and family violence in the United States today.
4. EITHER:
(a) What are the major problems in pre-college education in the United States? What are the various ways of addressing them?
OR:
(b) What are the major problems with the health system of the United States? What are the various ways of addressing them?