After identifying the determinants of social status and class in the United States, Identifying the characteristics of the different social classes in the United States, applying the sociological perspectives of structure/functionalism and conflict to stratification and class; state your position and defend your position on *How future business firms will be organized. *Whether it is or it is not inevitable that social structures form. *Whether it is or it is not inevitable that easily observable differences such as gender-differences or racial-differences will be used as the basis of social structure.