SOC 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sex Segregation, Global Issue, Human Capital
16 Jul 2018
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Soc 101, spring 2018 (from giddens, chapter 10, gender inequality): Economists focus on women"s occupational choice o economist came up with a human capital theory: the argument that individuals make investment in their own human capital in order to increase their own productivity and earnings. Sociologist focus on the constraint women face and are against the human capital theory because they don"t believe women choose certain occupation. Different characteristic may distinguished ethnic groups from one another, but the common ones are history, religious faith, languages, ancestry, and style of dress and adornment. Know all the models of ethnic harmony in the u. s. , and how they"ve changed over time. What is racial formation ? racial formation as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed. Racial formation in the united states from the 1960s to the 1990s irish were thought as inferior to native-born, protestant whites. (1840) competed with african americans for low-skilled jobs.
