SOCL 2001 : Exam 3 Outline
Document Summary
Social class and socio-economic status (income, education, occupation) Consistency across time and society, blue/white collar jobs. Theories of stratification (is it good or bad?) Distribution of wealth: top 1% own 34. 6% of private wealth, followed by next 19% with 50. 5%. Poverty in us: poverty line (3x basic foods) *poverty rate in the us and la (1st in us), historical pattern & rates among children/elderly. Social mobility: closed/open systems of strat: caste, apartheid, slavery vs class. Status attainment model: physical, human, social, cultural cap. Ethnicity: based on origin or shared cultural identity. Minority group (vs. dominant group): norms and power (size?) *us in 2050 or s. african rep. before 1980. * ethnic work to identify or stay away from a particular ethnicity. *stereotype: widely held beliefs, functions and dysfunctions, positive or negative. R. merton"s typology: all/fair weather liberals, active/timid bigots. *ethnic antagonism: labor relations (exclusion, displacement, and radicalism) *integration: park"s race relations cycle theory (competition, accommodation, assimilation).
