SOC 100A Midterm: Review for 2nd Test (SOC)
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Social construction of race ethnicity, gender and class: Not mentioned in lecture, don"t need to care too much about it in the readings. Compare to lecture notes, won"t have anything related to videos that much. Weber: additional criteria for class, not just based on economic status, based on the power prestige and honor (which job was more honorable etc. ) someone had, relates to socio-economic as well. Don"t need to have lots of money to have a high status in society, position of a person can be varied more since its not just based on economic terms. Marx: people in order to have status (based on who had more land) needs to have property or means of production. Based more on economic criteria, you either have the means of production or you don"t, either bourgeoisie or proletariat. Giddens-definition of what taylorism, what fordism is. Ngai pun & jenny chan about labor in china. Duhigg is on apple production of products.