SOCY105 Midterm Review Sheet Part 2 Readings The Promise Reading Intersection between biography and history influenced by social structures Mills is the author Private troubles are expressions of public issues Need to look at society for social problems Marx weber durkhiem Systems of power and inequality Have to look at race class and gender as interconnected Race is socially constructed Gender is rooted in social institutions Color blindness should be put on the same playing field forget racial history The Latino threat narrative Thought as a threat to jobs Took jobs that no one wanted Thought Hispanics were going to change our culture and not accept our norms Quebec 9 11 happened and everyone thought immigrants were a threat model Painted a picture that they were a bad thing Alien citizen doesn t belong in some ways has some rights as regular citizen Went from illegal aliens reconquestadors invasion Immigration is always a problem Prohibition the Punitive Model War on drugs started in the 70 s during the Reagan era What determines how punitive a comm Is penalties priorities likelihood Harsh strict absolute deterrence Soft moderate relative deterrence Legalization wont fix the crime In favor of legalization less burden less violent crime less profit for gangs On Being Sane in Insane Places weren t Relates to labeling theory once they were deemed insane no one believed that they A sane person was put in an insane hospital and convinced everyone he was insane and then they wouldn t believe that he was really sane Cant tell who is sane and insane Behavior can be misunderstood Ain t no Makin it Lads disruptive in class Ear oles the good children Class and education is hand in hand Wealthier district have better schools and materials They pay more attention to good kids instead of the bad ones Not all schools are created equal The whole idea of what it means to be educated is situated in a class structure Expectations differ from where they are from We like to think education is based on the effort put in by the individual but that is not the only factor How America turned poverty into a crime Things have gotten worse since nickel and dime The lower third income workers have worse conditions The book did make people think about the poor Hard to get welfare but when you do people treat you like crap America sees poor people as being lazy Boyfriend Material Guide line for what guys want in females Girls look at magazines for advice on how to get males Constructs a false image for males and females and how they are perceived Constructing a battered women Rape culture victim blaming Girls ask for rape Battered woman criteria Hard for lesbian woman to get into shelters afraid to be around other woman shelters would isolate them seeing woman as the aggressor is hard Some homes have family counseling and others isolation Hard for it to be looked at that men can be raped Patriarchy male dominated society Misogyny hatred of woman Gender pay gap Women get paid less for the same jobs Stay at home moms don t get paid for that Woman took over traditional male roles during the WWII People C Wright Mills says if you do not specify and confront real issues what you will do will surely obscure them He is saying we need to wake up and recognize the uncomfortable issues because it is better to recognize them than to just stay asleep Interested in social class and conflicts between social classes How one class would control other social classes for monetary gain Thought proletariat would produce wealth and do the hard work and bourgeoisie receive Karl Marx the wealth Max Weber Class depends on ownership of material resources the means of production How production of wealth and religion produce wealth How much wealth you had tells you how good a person you are Class depends on ones income and wealth along with status and party Emile Durkheim Social control is important Degree to which people identify and are integrated into society He said you want people to be integrated in society so they know social norms Class depends on ones cultural capital which is hierarchically valued Pierre Bourdieu Tim Wise Barbara Erhenreich
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