· Identify the principles of inequality. How do we see these principles at work in A Class Divided?
· What are the various standards of equality discussed in your textbook?
· What is the essentialist perspective on race and gender - What are the core tenets of this perspective? What evidence supports it and/or contradicts it?
· What is the social constructionist perspective on race and gender - What are the core tenets of this perspective? What evidence supports it/contradicts it?
· What is the process of gender construction?
· What is gender stratification? What evidence is there in our course materials?
· To what extent are gender inequality and the media connected (think about Assignment 2)?
· According to the slides, what are some of the outcomes of the feminist movements?
· What are concrete, empirical examples of racial inequality?
· What determines social class according to Marx, Erik Olin Wright, Weber?
· What does the evidence show us about the distributions of income and wealth in the US?
· Why is social stratification universal according to a functionalist and a conflict perspective?
· Be able to discuss the consequences of one's class position. How does social class determine health (physical and mental), education, family, employment, crime, and politics?
· How is the Horatio Alger myth functional for society?
· What is social mobility? What did the Monopoly games show us about the role of luck, skills, and one's social location in achieving social mobility?
· What are the myths v realities of race in the textbook and in the film clip, Race: The Power of Illusion?
· Broadly speaking, be familiar with the experiences of various race/ethnic groups as presented in the textbook in Chapters 9
and Remember that White is a racial category.
· Describe the research findings in the article "Muslims in America."
· Why are people prejudiced? What is the difference between individual and institutional discrimination?