Discussion #3 – Stratification (Module 6, Chapter 9)Most sociologists clearly believe that poverty is primarily a result of larger social forces, while most Americans seem to prefer to explain poverty as a result of personal inadequacies among the poor. According to National Center for Children and Poverty (NCCP) almost one in five children in the U.S. live in poverty.After looking though the following site and from your sociology journals, discuss the proposition that the U.S. is a meritocratic society.Here are a few websites to help you get started thinking about the concept of poverty and meritocracy in the United States.http://www.nccp.org/ (Links to an external site.)http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood (Links to an external site.)http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty (Links to an external site.)To help you with your academic, sociology research, here is 1 example of a journal article, formatted in ASA style.You will need to research 3 sociology journal articles on the topic/s of poverty and/or meritocracy. You can choose any number of sub-fields (education, health, medicine, justice, housing, employment, etc…)Brand, Jennie E., and Yu Xie. 2010. “Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education.” American Sociological Review 75(2):273-302.Find 3 unique journal articles on your own
