FAL13 Soc 001 Quiz CORE Study Guide and breakdown of exam questions This study guide only covers material in the CORE Readings have their own study guides Lectures are their own study guide There will be 25 multiple choice questions plus 3 extra credit questions covering the READINGS CORE and LECTURES o READINGS Author Chapter Adams and Bettis 18 Loewen 32 Feagin 34 o CORE Chapters 13 14 o LECTURE Materials All lecture material including Mardi Gras study guide Race The difference between us study guide o For all terms be able to 1 define and 2 identify the concept given an example Note on figures and tables The CORE distinguishes between figures and tables in the text Please be sure you re reading the correct figure or table The 6th and 5th editions have table and figure numbers that differ slightly I ve noted this where necessary Breakdown of exam questions Approximate of questions from each item subject to change between now and the quiz Item Mardi Gras Race The difference between us Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Adams and Bettis Loewen Feagin TOTAL Regular Extra credit 0 2 0 2 1 7 1 7 0 2 0 2 1 2 3 25 Chapter 13 Life chances see the glossary in the index the probabilities concerning the fate an individual can expect in life wealth Effects of parents social class on children s life chances Health long term consequences on children mortality rates and morbidity sickness rates are negatively related to social class Poverty is related to delays in physical development and more likely to suffer from serious psychological distress Education Parents income has an effect on whether children finish high school and attend and graduate college Poor children are less likely to attend Preschool and fall behind with fewer skills have educational problems Working life men who grew up in poor families tend to work less hours per year and earn less per hour Their annual earning are reduced by more than 40 Crime and justice Poor people more likely to be victims of all kinds of crimes Lower class victims less likely to be released from bail more likely to be arrested and convicted and sent to prison Reproduction of class structure cultural and structural perspective Members of each new generation tend to reproduce the class structure in which they were raised in Cultural explanations of reproduction of the class structure poverty people in different social classes have different patterns of values beliefs and behavioral norms which they pass on to their children through the socialization process The values beliefs and behavioral norms of lower classes are not very compatible with success in society Culture of poverty Oscar Lewis the culture of poverty turns poverty into a vicious cycle Once it comes into existence he said the culture of poverty tends to perpetuate itself from generation to generation because of its effects on the children by the time slum children are age six or seven they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes of their subculture Income the amount of money that an individual or family group receives in wages salaries investments and so on Wealth total value of the assets owned by an individual or family group minus the amount of debt they have a special form of money not used to purchase milk and shoes and other life necessities More often it is used to create opportunity secure a desired stature and standard of living or pass along class status to one s children Be able to tell the difference between income and wealth given examples Structural explanations of reproduction of class system Focus on the limited access to opportunities that poor people have compared to the more affluent Suggest that the differences in the values beliefs and behavioral norms that seem to exist are better explained as the consequences of poverty rather than as the causes Be able to compare and contrast examples of structural versus cultural causes of poverty Structure of opportunities we ll demonstrate this in class Pygmalion effect do teachers expectations affect students performance Rosenthal and Jacobson experiment to test the existence of Pygmalion effect in schools Randomly assigned one out of every 5 children to the spurter bloomer group They had increase in gains compared to the non spurter Feagin s term for the cumulative results of many facial slights and insults Tracking process by which school children receive different education content based on their perceived aptitude process whereby students are divided into categories so that they can be assigned in groups to various kinds of classes High track positive effect on high track and ability group students Kids from more affluent background are disproportionately placed into higher tracks Learned to work independently and think abstractly Low track negative effect on the achievement of lower track or ability group students Lower class backgrounds are disproportionately placed in lower tracks Learned to be obedient little children Table 13 2 what high track and low track students report as the most important thing they learned all year Lower track completing homework handing it in on time listen and follow directions be prepared for class get along with students and teacher Higher track understand complex concepts and ideas work independently benefit of logical and organized thinking discipline to take hard class Stop and Review 13 3 b 13 4 Chapter 14 A dollar is not always a dollar some people s dollar cost more and buy less Table 14 1 Median earnings for Bachelor s degree o White men women black men women black women earn more than white women white men earn more than black men white men and black men earn more than both women o Overall effect of being a white male across all educational levels earn more than other races except with some college no degree Asians more o Overall effect of being a white female across all educational levels around the same as black females Asians earning more with degrees white women earning more with high school graduates Asians earn more than white In 2 degrees of college Figure 14 2 14 1 in5th ed Who is denied a mortgage Blacks then Hispanics easier for whites Why do we say this is evidence that a dollar is not always a dollar Color people are given less advantageous loans even when their credit history qualifies them to borrow at the best interest rates reverse redling Prejudice stereotypes attitudes and beliefs versus Discrimination behavior Prejudice a negative or hostile attitude toward a