This document discusses inequality and the distribution of resources within universities as social institutions. It argues that universities should promote equality but often privilege some students over others in areas like funding, admissions, grading, and healthcare access. Class inequality arises through backdoor admissions that favor wealthy families and grades being influenced by money. To reduce inequality, the document suggests blinding grades, checking candidate qualifications more closely, and improving healthcare access monitoring. It analyzes how universities, as social institutions, can both positively and negatively impact social stratification in the United States.

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ResourcesSOC 436 GCU Inequality Distribution of Resources to Universities Members
DiscussionThe final benchmark paper should be a noticeably revised update of the three
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Discussion: Inequality Distribution of ResourcesCreate an essay consisting of the revised
versions of the essays in Topics 3, 5 and 6. This section should be 2,250-3,000 words.Write
a conclusion of 350-400 words, explaining how the social institution you chose contributes
to the social stratification of the United States for better and for worse. (Comp. 3.5)You
should note the References for parts I-III along with the conclusion at the end of the
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Programmatic competencies:BS Sociology; BS Social Work3.2: Analyze the U.S. stratification
system in regards to class.3.3: Analyze the U.S. stratification system in regards to
gender.3.4: Analyze the U.S. stratification system in regards to race.3.5: Summarize the
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Stratification Social stratification shows how different people get different access
rates of resources and power across social groups in a social institution. There are different
types of social institutions that include; universities, colleges, and school districts. The main
focus here will be the universities as social institutions. Social class around society is
determined by someone’s economic status, which is usually measured using wealth and
income.In modern society, the class’s stratification element has taken its course in almost
every social institution, mostly in education, university to be specific. A social institution
such as a university should be upfront fighting for equality and being the voice of those who
are naïve to speak out (Grusky, 2019). However, the board of such institutions has started
considering and serving people by providing services or distribution of the institution
available resources only to reach a few who are chosen.There has a significant rise in cases

2. of in-equality distribution of resources to the members of the universities. This has
somehow made the leaders of the institutions forget their social roles. The essential social
roles of a university’s leaders are too, generate policies that do not favor a particular set of
the group but everyone in the institution; it also creates a fair, competitive environment for
students; additionally, the prominent role of the institutions is the act of teaching and
making sure that students cover all that is required by every end of the semester. The
universities also have the social role of paying a certain amount of school fees for
students.All of the above roles sometimes impact social institutions. At times, the
universities recommend those students in the high student leadership spots in the school
fund’s disbarment. These student leaders are usually not exposed to the same harsh and
extreme conditions as some students have. This is why most students drop out of the
institutions, having expected to benefit from the school funds and losing them to people
who do not even need any funds just because of their school roles, and the institution thinks
that they so need funding. In this social institution, class inequality starts in the
admission of new students to the institution. Gone are the days when class performance
was considered to progress to the next academic level (Beeghley, 2015). Nowadays, most
students secure their universities’ positions using a back door and due to the family being
capable of biting the institution and securing a place at the university. This is not so good
because the position to join could be someone else whose social class in terms of income
and wealth could not satisfy the greedy institution.Class inequality is also present while
lecturers are grading their students. A student with the capability to buy a good grade,
which in this case is the money presented at the table, gets a good chance of performing
well throughout the course years at the expense of other hardworking students who end up
getting unimaginable grades since the lecturers have to intentionally make some students
fail, to cover for those who were ideally supposed to the ones dying. This is proven that
class buys good grades, and excellence is mostly attached to high incomes and
wealth.Health care facilities in these social institutions are supposedly free. Every member
of the institution, be it, students or staff, have equal rights visiting this institution hospital,
and the services given should be similar with no exceptions (Marginson, 2016). However,
this policy regarding universities’ healthcare facilities and how they work have been
profoundly misused. Students or staffs who have a way to buy themselves into the
consultation room are the ones who benefit from these facilities. In cases where just an
average person is in the line waiting to wait to be attended to, the caretakers or doctors are
hesitant and treats one patient for decades.To avoid grades being interfered with, the
institutions must get rid of personal data input concerning results and students’ grades and
device a way to adopt a method that marks the students’ exams and grades them without
any lecturer interference with the grades.Additionally, the institution must get used to rain
checking the candidates it selects to join information and ensure that they are up to the
qualifications specification. This will significantly reduce cases of back door admission of
students into the universities.Increasing the number of medics in the universities’ premises
and making the healthcare services online for easier monitoring of the activities happening
and those ignorant health workers who are after money to attend to someone be released
off their duties.ReferencesGrusky, D. (2019). Social Stratification, Class, Race, and Gender in

3. Sociological Perspective. Routledge.Beeghley, L. (2015). The Structure of Social
Stratification in the United States, The, CourseSmart eTextbook. Routledge.Marginson, S.
(2016 Marginson, S. (2016). The worldwide trend to high participation higher education:
Dynamics of social stratification in inclusive systems. Higher education, 72(4), 413-434.
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