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Median economic development, diversity, complexity, and inequality.
Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, India, Pakistan |
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Wealthy economy, high complexity, diversity in occupational structure, low inequality (except US)
US, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Canda |
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Poor economy, least diverse industry (raw material export), low simply divison of labor, high inequality.
Chad, Uganda, Burma, Laos Bolivia, Phillipines, El Salvador, Haiti. |
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| Open and Closed Systems of Stratification |
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| Gender gap in status, income and power |
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Women often stand in traditional female occupation.
70% of men's income
Small minority of those in power |
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Interconnected through multinational corporations, policy groups, media organizations, etc.
Transitionational corporation boards operate beyond borders in world of elite power networks, defacto ruling class of capitalist world |
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| Highest --> Lowest non-agricultural labor by women |
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Childcare, receptionist, technology aide, bookeeping, maid, nursing, in-home care, clerk, teacher.
HIGHEST (>40%): East europe, northwest europe, canada, US, east asia. HIGH (30-40%): South europe except spain and greece. LOW (<30%): Latin America. LOWEST (<10%): Africa, middle east |
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| 4 impacts of current world system |
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Loss of well-paying working class jobs.
Increase in high-paying hi-tech jobs.
Increase in low-paying service jobs.
Cuts in wages, benefits jobs. |
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| Gender gap in earnings: Supply vs. Demand |
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Supply: education/training --
effort, occupational, segreation, socialzation, nearly allocation, social networks.
Demand: Taste, statitstical discrimination, segmentation |
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Assimilation Theorty
(3 subtheories) |
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-Immigrants Assimilate. How Assimlation happens
1.) Anglo conformity; Coercive core anglo culture forces migrants to Americanize
2.) Melting Pot: Immigrants and society transform themselves through contact and adaptation.
3.) Pluralistic: Segmented assimilation, same rentention of ethnic identity culture. Depends on where you end up. |
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Belief in difference between sexes.
No consistant evidence.
Small biological diffs amplified by socialization. |
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| Particularistic vs. Universalstic Criteria |
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Particularlistic: Focus on relationships rather than roles, community and comraderie, subjective.
Universalistic: Focus more on rules and absolutes; objective |
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Fall of communism in eastern europe.
Economic reforms in china and vietnam.
Rise of global capitalist market economy. |
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| Pros and Con's of the German system |
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Pros: highly trained/skilled workforce, free college.
Cons: Inflexible, no second chances. Parental advantages. Selection advantages. |
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Obession with ranking, status, heirarchy.
Low income inequality. |
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| How class, race, and gender impact education |
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-Academic tracking/sorting.
-Social class --> college, cultural capital.
-Neighborhood and school finding.
-Discrimination in hiring
-Elite colleges lead to better income |
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| Factors that affect career trajectory |
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-Labor market structure.
-Social network.
-Life course change in family/adult roles.
-Discrimination in hiring. |
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| Basis of stratification: Marx and Weber |
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Marx: Ownership of means of production.
Weber: No system is completely closed or open. Occupational skill level, economic exchange relations. |
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Views stratification as result of competition between racial groups for limited resources.
Blacka vs.Koreans in LA riots. White attitudes towards affirmative action. |
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Political domination and economic exploitation of racial and ethnic minoritie by more powerful groups.
Slaves, coal workers, farm laborors. |
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| Educational networks of the elite |
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Top tier : 2.9 Million.
Low: $1.7 Million
Aptitude acounts for only 2/3 to 3/4 difference. |
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| Contest and Sponsored Mobility |
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CONTEST: Fair play, late selection, little sorting in schools, merit --> status, no superior/inferior.
SPONSORED: Based on merit as defined by elite, early selection, much sorting in schools, belief in superior elite. |
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| Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes (black hispanic asain) |
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Attributing certain trats to subgroups to legitamize discrimination.
Black: Lazy, dirty, athletic, musical, stupid, naive.
Latino: Dirty.
Asia: Smart, submisive, not fun, quiet, 4.0 GPA |
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.0001% of population, 94% male, mostly white and from US and Europe.
Set agendas at WTO, G8, G20, NATO, World Bank, Trilateral Commission, and Bilderberg Group |
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| Intergenerational and Intragenerational Mobility |
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Inter : Parents to kid.
Intra: over course of lifetime |
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| Improvement in womens education |
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- 50 - 60 % of BA's held by women
- 1/3 of doctorate and med degrees
- 1/2 of law degrees |
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| Original creators of the status attainment model. Their model is predictive or deterministic. |
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| What percentage of immigrants believe the American Dream is a possibility? |
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| General Status Attainment Model |
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| Created by Sewell. Added ind. charicteristics and aspirations of others to the model. |
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| Predicting Outcomes with Stats |
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| Predictive and Deterministic |
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| Institutionalizing Inequality |
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| Inequality is built into the system. |
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| Ascriptive Charicteristics |
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| Charicters about someone that you can tell just by looking at them -- no other detail informed. For example, race/ethnicity. |
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| Belief that a lack of sucess can be taken personally. |
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| Associating one's ethnicity with their internal charicteristics |
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| Tries to find a biological justification for race inequality. |
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| The ratio of maximum width of head to it's max. length. Attempts to proce that races are inferior, and that inequality is justified. |
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| We all compete for the same resources. Might play out most in areas of ethnic diversity. |
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Institutionalization of Inequality |
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Refers to the collection of customs, laws, and social practices that create and sustain patterns of inequality. |
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Legitimation of Inequality |
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Refers to the use of social ideas (social
definitions, beliefs, and values) to support, rationalize, and justify patterns of inequality |
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European immigrants and farmers into the countryside to farm and expand the country. However, the "open land" was taken from Native Americans, and was rarely given to blacks or women. |
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Publicprojects,Social
Security Act, and Minimum wage legislation;
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| Diminishing employment since 1970s |
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Econommic Stagnation since the oil crisis.
Declining middle class.
Expanding poor.
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Teutonic — members of the northern race were long-skulled, tall in stature, and
possessed pale eyes and skin. Mediterranean — members of the southern race were long-skulled, short in stature,
and possessed dark eyes and skin. Alpine — members of the central race were round-skulled, stocky in stature, and
possessed intermediate eye and skin color. |
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