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- Part i—dominant and minority
- Study guide for part i
Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text is a very, very brief textbook suitable for use as a supplemental or stand-alone text in a college-level minority studies Sociology course. Any instructor who would choose to use this as a stand-alone textbook would need to supply a large amount of statistical data and other pertinent and extraneous Sociological material in order to "flesh-out" fully this course.
Each module/unit of Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text contains the text, course objectives, a study guide, key terms and concepts, a lecture outline, assignments, and a reading list.
Study guide for part i
- Be able to define and discuss stratification/inequalityStratification
- The unequal distribution of the goods of society
- Social inequality
- A system in which people are denied access to the goods of society based on their group membership
- Define, discuss, and give examples of master statusReview master statusRace or ethnicity, sex or gender, age, religion, disability, and SESSES
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S tatus= income+education+occupation
- Define and discuss SES
- What is SES and how does it impact peoples’ lives?
- The stratification hierarchy
- Where someone is placed in terms of access to wealth, power, and status
- Based on various aspects of their master status
- How does the stratification hierarchy affect
- Racial and ethnic minorities?
- Women?
- Sexual orientation minorities?
- Religious minorities?
- The disabled?
- Define Thomas’s Theorem and explain how it relates to issues of stratification/inequality
- How do our concepts of reality affect the way we judge others?
- Discuss the ways in which the human mind creates social categories
- Define and discuss stereotypes
- How many stereotypes about groups other than your own can you list?
- Are any of these stereotypes true?
- Why or why not?
- How many stereotypes about your own group can you list?
- Are any of these stereotypes true?
- Why or why not?
- Define and describe social differentiation
- Explain and give examples of social positions
- Rankings of roles and statuses
- Explain and give examples of social mobility
- What is the social mobility in your family?
- Define and discuss the various dimensions of and theories of stratification/inequality
- Marx
- Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
- Based on the economic system
- Weber
- The bureaucracy
- Wealth
- A person’s total economic access
- Give an example
- Power
- The ability to influence over resistance
- Give an example
- Status
- The esteem that society gives to social statuses and social roles
- Give an example
- Models of power
- C. Wright Mills:
The Power Elite
- Power is held at the top of society by a handful of people
- Give an example
- Robert Dahl: Pluralistic model
- Power is relatively evenly distributed
- Give an example
- Which model is correct?
- The Davis-Moore Debate
- What are the main points of Davis-Moore’s argument?
- Why do they say that stratification is functional for society?
- Do you agree?
- Melvin Tumin’s response to Davis-Moore
- What are the main points of Tumin’s argument?
- Why does he disagree with Davis-Moore?
- Do you agree with Tumin?
- Be able to discuss the following dimensions of and theories of stratification/inequality
- E. Digby Baltzell: WASP
- Who are the WASPs?
- Are they still “in charge”
- Thorstein Veblen
- Conspicuous Leisure
- Give three modern examples
- Look on
Forbes
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Give three modern examples
- Look on
Forbes
- Oscar LewisCulture of poverty
- What are the main characteristics of the culture of poverty?
- Is the culture of poverty real?
- Charles Murray
Losing Ground and
The Bell Curve
- What are Murray’s primary arguments?
- Do you agree or disagree?
- William Julius Wilson
- The Truly Disadvantaged
- When Work Disappears
- Hyperghettoization
- What are WJ Wilson’s major arguments?
- What data sources does he use?
- Do you agree with his conclusions?
- Herbert Gans
- The functionality of poverty
- The War against the Poor
- What are Gans’s primary points of argument?
- What are his data sources?
- Do you agree with his conclusions?
- Wealth
- The billionaire’s club
- Who are the richest people in the world and how rich are they?
- What are the most expensive consumer items in the world and who buys them?
- What are the richest countries in the world and how does the US compare?Use the Internet to find data
- What are the richest companies in the world and how do they compare to the economies of countries?
- Find and explain data about the demographics of poverty in the US
- Find and explain data about the feminization of poverty
- Find information about and explain public policies and poverty programs
- Find data about the minimum wage vs. the living wage
- What is the minimum wage?
- What are the criteria used to determine what the minimum wage will be?
- Find information about the history of the minimum wage and explain how it relates to the cost of living
- Find information about the living wage; explain what it is and its ramifications for society
- Look at the
World Demographic “Clock” and explain what it shows
- What did you learn from this that you did not know before?
- Explain the
US and World Population “Clocks”
- Find data that break down world demographics into percentages.“If the World Were a Village of 100 People.”
- Define, discuss, and give examples of Infant Mortality Rates, Literacy Rates, Life Expectancy, and GDP/GNP in the richest and poorest nations in the world
- How do most people perceive World Inequality?
- Why?
- What information is available about world inequality to most people?
- Identify the levels into which the world is stratified and what those levels mean in terms of life chances
- Define and give examples of:
- First World countries
- Second World countries
- Third World countries
- Fourth World countries
- Find data about and discuss carrying capacity and world hunger
- Define carrying capacity
- In the late spring of 2008, there have been food riots in some parts of the world and food prices in some parts of the world have reached an all-time high
- Find data that explain this
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United Nations Summit on World Hunger
- Discuss the health concerns of First, Second, and Third World countries
- Find and explain data about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how it impacts world poverty
- Identify and differentiate among the various theories of inequality in the world
- Conquest
- Migration
- Colonialism and Empire
- Neo-Colonialism
- World Systems Theory
- Modernization Theory
- Globalization and Glocalization
- George Ritzer’s McDonaldization theory.
- Thomas Friedman’s “Flat World” theory.
- Find and explain statistical information concerning world stratification/inequality including such statistical referents as Infant Mortality Rates, Literacy Rates, Life Expectancy, and GDP or GNP.
- Find and explain data about the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the ways in which their policies impact global inequality.
Questions & Answers
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Communication is effective because it allows individuals to share ideas, thoughts, and information with others.
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Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the person begins to jumb back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes. Identify the types of learning, if it is classical conditioning identify the NS, UCS, CS and CR. If it is operant conditioning, identify the type of consequence positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement or punishment
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Wekolamo
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Agreed 👍 There are many parts of our brains and behaviors, we really need to get to know. Blessings for everyone and happy Sunday!
ARC
A child is a member of community not society elucidate ?
Isn't practices worldwide, be it psychology, be it science. isn't much just a false belief of control over something the mind cannot truly comprehend?
compare and contrast skinner's perspective on personality development on freud
Skinner skipped the whole unconscious phenomenon and rather emphasized on classical conditioning
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explain how nature and nurture affect the development and later the productivity of an individual.
nature is an hereditary factor while nurture is an environmental factor which constitute an individual personality. so if an individual's parent has a deviant behavior and was also brought up in an deviant environment, observation of the behavior and the inborn trait we make the individual deviant.
Samuel
I am taking this course because I am hoping that I could somehow learn more about my chosen field of interest and due to the fact that being a PsyD really ignites my passion as an individual the more I hope to learn about developing and literally explore the complexity of my critical thinking skills
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Jonathan
generally amnesi how long yrs memory loss
interpersonal relationships
What would be the best educational aid(s) for gifted kids/savants?
treat them normal, if they want help then give them.
that will make everyone happy
Saurabh
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OpenStax, Minority studies: a brief sociological text. OpenStax CNX. Mar 31, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11183/1.13
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