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Ch. 10 – Social ClassClass/class location (define)Exam 2 Study GuideChapter 8Deviance and Social ControlPerception is key (reaction)Deviance & crime are relative; definitions of eachStigma, 3 types: physical, personal, tribal; Erving GoffmanShaming/degradation ceremony (text)Symbolic Interactionists:Differential association theory[Social] Control theory; social bonds [attachment, commitment, involvement, belief]Labeling theory; process of labeling (PP slide 5), deviance amplification; techniques ofneutralizationFunctionalists; functions and dysfunctions of devianceRobert MertonStrain Theory and motivation for crime, cultural structure vs. social structureAnomie/sense of normlessnessResponses to Strain: Conformity; Innovation; Ritualism; Retreatism; RebellionConflict Theory: prison population; social controlDeath penalty and bias (text)Medicalization of deviance (text)Film: GirlhoodIn what ways do the people in the film use the 3 symbolic interactionist theories of crime and deviance to explain their situation?Chapter 11 Sex and Gender [definitions]Doing gender changes across time and cultures. E.g. doing masculinity in filmsNature vs. nurtureGender Socializationo Teaching gender and enforcing ito policing hegemonic masculinityo e.g., Pascoe, Dude You’re a FagGender inequality (lecture & text)Gender stratification/income inequalityExplanations:Status compositionStatus closure/glass ceilingDouble bindMaternal wallGlass escalatorDouble jeopardyExample of trombonist from Gladwell’s BlinkUnderrepresentation of women as full characters in media; Bechdel testWomen as minority group (text)Sex typing of work (text)Global discrimination against women (text)Feminism (text)Film: Miss RepresentationIdentify at least 5 ways the media helps sustain gender inequality.Chapter 12Race as social construction; not really based on biological differenceRacial categorization = arbitrary; e.g. height; skin colorRace as social factRace: myth and reality (text)E.g., Tiger Woods (text)Ethnic groups (text)Ethnic work (text)History of whiteness; e.g., Italian miners, etc.Tim Wise; conflict perspective on raceJay Smooth; dental hygiene perspective on talking about raceColor-blind rhetoric; post-racial societyPrejudice and discrimination (lecture & text)Internalizing dominant norms (text)Persistence of racial inequality and racism- basic statistics on inequality (lecture, text)- e.g., “Shopping while black”; ABC NewsWilliam Julius Wilson; race or class? (lecture, text)e.g., Henry Louis GatesIndividual and institutional discrimination (lecture notes and text)Examples of institutional racism:- history of bank loans/home mortgages (lecture notes and text)- residential segregation by race (lecture notes)Contact theory (text)Functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives on prejudice (text)Genocide (text)Internal colonialism (text)Unpacking the invisible backpack/cultural privilege (text)Latinos (text)African Americans (text)Media underrepresentation of nonwhites; media stereotypes of nonwhites (lecture notes)Ch. 10 – Social Class- Class/class location (define)o Power/The power elite (Mills) [text]o Prestige [text]- Status inconsistency [text]- Social class (define) [lecture & text]- Income vs. wealth- How many classes are there & what are they?o Marxo Wrighto Gilbert and Kahl- Underclass (critique)- Social mobility [text]- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs- Structures of opportunity and constraint available to rich and pooro Example from class of two students thinking about college- Basic statistics on inequality in the USo Changes since 1970so Inequality in income & wealth o How US compares to other advanced industrial nations- Consequences of inequality/social class/poverty [text & film]-Film: Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and Wealth- Povertyo Who is poor? [text]o Children in poverty [text]o Deserving vs. undeserving poor [text]o How is poverty defined?o Critiques of poverty lineo Rates of poverty: overall, by race/ethnicityTest questions may draw on all films, all short videos, all examples used in class lecture (even if not explicitly cited above), all lectures, and all chapters assigned for this portion of the


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