SOWK 250 TEST 2 - MAJOR AREAS OF DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITY WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

Ore Reading 6: "Media Magic": Mantsios -Unline other cultural and socializing institutions, ownership and control of the mass media is highly concentrated. -The US is the most highly stratified society in the industrialized world. -Media ignores the poor -*"The poor are an eyesore"* Ore 20: The Return of "Separate but Equal": Kahlenberg -"Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" -More than 70% of black children now attend mostly minority schools -Middle-class students are far less likely to act out or engage in bad behavior Ore 50: "Nickel-and-Dimed on (Not) Getting by In America": Ehrenreich -At beginning of 1998, she leaves behind everything that normally soothes the ego/sustains body- home, career, companion, card, etc. - for a plunge into the low-wage workforce. -"Trailer trash" is now a demographic to aspire Social Class: Position in the economic based (grounded, not solely) hierarchy Ex: -Income -- $ received -Skill -Wealth -- assets -Family Social Economic Status (SES) -Family Prestige (name) -Education -Occupational Prestige (physicians, lawyers, "cool jobs" *Picture: Kennedy's, Cobe Bryan Karl Marx 2 classes -Owners - Live off profits / stock -Workers - CEO of business / figurehead - general work Movie: Social Class in America Class: Looks, popularity, where dad works, where you live, etc. *America is a country divided by class. Movie Notes Cont. - W.A.S.P. White Angle Saxon Protestant -exclusive, "run the place" Co-Op= Middle Class / Upper Middle - know how to debate. Chain grocery store: working class. (City council voted Co op.) Classism @ Ind. Level Individual Level (agency): A belief that a group is intellectually or physically inferior which justifies their low level. work or poverty. EX: Bell Curve book, (% of popn, poverty=??) Average IQ map, developing countries in N. America Classism @ Symbolic Level (Culture) Belief that the lower working classes have values and behavior which PROHIBITS them from moving UP in social class. Classism @ Institutional Level (Structure) Systemic laws, practices, and behaviors that systematically FAVOR HIGHER class groups and DISCRIMINATE against LOWER class groups. EX: -Teaching quality by school SES (Socioeconomic Status) -Hours needed to afford apartment *MI= 77 hrs/wk, CA=90-100 hrs/wk ORE Readings: 1-2 1 :Racial Formations: Susie Phipps unsucessfully sued the Lousiana Bureau of Vital Records to change her racial blood from black to white. 1/32 of blood = "Negro Blood". -Her case illustrates the continuing dilemma of defining race and establishing its meaning in institutional life. -Drop of blood= Sociohistorical concept. 2: Optional ethnicities - for Whites only? -symbolic ethnicity=that is individualistic in its origin, and without real social cost for the person -ethnicity is a belief in common ancestry, and primarily a social phenomenon. Jews became White: "Miss Representation" Movie Sexism: girls grow up thinking how they look is solely important -53% of teens by age 13 are upset w/ their body, and 73% by 17. -Appearance is everything. -Normal for GUY to be protagonist. -"Architype, the fighting f*** toy" -"Women too emotional" (hillary clinton) -sarah palin - looked up to for looks. Institutional Classism Note: Minimum wage is NOT possible to live off of 100%. Addressing Classism @ Individual Level (2) Individual Lvl: (broader than symbolic), Educating ONESELF. EX: book = "strangers in their own land" -interacting with the "other" e.g. book, "Nickel and Dimed" ~ She did not survive minimum wage, housing rent hard for her. -Interpersonal Discussions in teachable moments ~ e.g. Albert E. Meme - fish and tree - diff. types of intelligence. Classism @ Symbolic Lvl: (2) Educating and creating awareness among large groups -panel for LD/Mental Health Illnesses ~ food stamps - myths vs. reality -Cultivating societal support and/or pressure ~ "southern sounds dumb" "britishh sounds sexy" (SLANG) Classism @ Institutional Lvl: (2) -Research (hidden patterns found), wages -Lobby (protests) -change your world (we can be in charge&still get paid *use power for good and equality. Ore #5 - Race, homeowners, and wealth -Wealth: The total value of a families financial resources minus all debts The racial wealth gap: the standard metric of racial inequality is to compare the incomes of average white and black families Class Notes 3/14 (race and ethnicity) Race A categorization into a certain group based on bloodlines, phenotype, and society's perception and categorization of those phenotypes. Ex: -Obama (and his grandfather) -1/32nd black - one drop rule Ethnicity Sharing of a common cultural heritage; includes shared symbols, languages, ideas, customs, etc. Ex: quincenera Symbolic Ethnicity Individual in nature without real cost to the person identifying as such. Ex: "Pull out" when want to chose to identify or not White Americans (often for) -Ethnicity not optional for Af. Am. in America. Triangle visual- Life chances impacted. -used to be called minorities, now not-except in class. Minority group: A group whose power, privilege, and status in society is less than others. **Only use "minority" when talking about inequality. -Don't use "colored people" either. Racism @ Individual level: agency: An individual's belief in biological racial inferiority or that racial in biological racial inferiority or that racial groups should be segregated. Ex: KKK, Irish (during prohibition), violent, crazy, alcoholics. -Monkeys and humans - negro was "missing piece" Racism @ symbolic level: culture: An individuals belief that a group does not fit into the culture of their society. Ex: Latinos and media - 44% maids -over represented on media Ex: asian news reporter NFL black v. white Institutional Level: Structure: Systematic laws, practices, and behaviors that systematically favor certain racial groups and discriminate against others. Ex: "Whos your best friend?" -black friends -White w/ white network -ice cream -we tell the people we know! *country club Addressing Inequality: (important) -Humility ~through culture:being open to culture -Willingness to learn -Commitment to growth AND action Micro to Mezzo: Micro - Individual: Your family, your church youth group, personal apology Mezzo: symbolic: Resources for families, train youth group leaders, public apology ORE # 9: The social construction of Gender - Lorber Gender is so pervasive that in our society we assume it is bred into our genes. -we fail to notice them PDF: What does it mean to be trans? Transgender: Umbrella term with many different identities existing under it Transsexual: person who identifies as the opposite sex of that which he/she was assigned at birth. Addressing Racism - Sex and Gender Sex: AKA Natal Sex. Gender: Social and cultural patterns that we associate with women and men in society. ~feminine / masculine ~Girl / boy; woman/man ~more socially constructed than biological Gender socialization Dad gender socialized him to be football players, He was not "born" to play football Gender Identity: A person who internal sense of who they are in the gender spectrum ~woman, man, Trans* Gender Expression: External expression of one's gender identity through behavior, clothing, hair, movement, voice, or body characteristics. ~feminine, masculine, trans* **Who you see on outside, sex assigned @ birth "Gender Unicorn" Gender identity - internal sense of who they are. Sex assigned @ birth: -"XX" chromosome - female, male, intersex. -Physically attracted to - women/men/other -Emotionally attracted to - women/men/other Sexism @ individual level: agency: An individuals belief that women are biologically inferior to men or should be submissive to them in all situations. ~often associated w religious groups ~Article on should women be pranked? Sexism @ symbolic level: culture: an individuals value of masculinity over feminity ~pink stuffed animal ~"Hungry Man Meal" Sexism @ Institutional level: structure: systemic laws, practices, and behaviors that systematically favor men and discriminate against women. ex: CEO's "mommy tax" ~penalty for having baby Addressing sexism @ individual and symbolic level: Unless it involves primary or secondary sex characteristics, do not ascribe characteristics, behaviors, attire, etc. to one sex/gender or the other. Notes pt. 2 in class: Addressing Sexism -Individual: Halloween Costume - Haan Solo (daughter) -Symbolic: Target - "Building - princess Leia (dad) -Engineer Toy - Goldy Blocks -American "boy" doll Institutional: -Voting for women or people with the interest of women -Lilly ledbetter act - fought for equal pay and prevention of this for future -dad sleeping with baby "men lean into kitchen table" Sex and gender are not binary.