BREKHUS FINAL SOCIOLOGY 1000
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Gan's Function of Poverty? - ANSWER Poverty is bad for the poor but beneficial for the
middle/high class. It provides dirty jobs at low costs, creates jobs for the middle class to
take care of the poor, provides profit for pawn shops, institutional scapegoating, spatial
purification, and helps with jobless rate.
"Stand and Deliver" in relation with "Savage Inequalities," and "Education as the Great
Equalizer"? - ANSWER Education is not the great equalizer, but it can be if
resources/opportunities are the same and expectations are high. Everyone does not get
where they are based on merit alone. In the movie, most math teachers weren't trained
for math, accused of cheating, and students weren't provided with computers, but they
were eventually given books and a high expectation to meet.
What is tracking? - ANSWER When an individual or community is assigned
classes/districts according to whether the students' overall achievement is average,
below average, above average, etc. and are then placed in classes/districts according
to that level. They deal with people that don't fit into their track and separate
resources/opportunities/funding. The rich get richer and poor get poorer.
White and black job hiring? - ANSWER Whites with an 18 month sentence are more
likely to get hired than a black with no sentence and the same credentials (Devah Pager
study)
Predominantly white names are 50% more likely to get called back
What is environmental racism? How does it relate to Gans article? - ANSWER It looks
at the effect of racism (not motive) and says that many environmental hazards
(highways, chemical plants, subway stations) are placed in minority neighborhoods. The
poor is made to absorb unwanted parts of society because they do not have lawyers
and strong forces to fight with.
False portrayal between egg and sperm? - ANSWER Egg perceived as- passive,
wasteful, and dependent,
Sperm- active, independent, productive
Both are actually wasteful, sperm moves slow and sideways
Egg is key (ligand), sperm is lock (pocket)
According to "Gender, Class and Terrorism," how are domestic and foreign terrorists
similar? - ANSWER Younger, lower class, educated at some level, masculinity,
entitlement, economic uncertainty and downward mobility
Personal self-help=shooters
Group self-help=rampage
CORRECT 100%
Gan's Function of Poverty? - ANSWER Poverty is bad for the poor but beneficial for the
middle/high class. It provides dirty jobs at low costs, creates jobs for the middle class to
take care of the poor, provides profit for pawn shops, institutional scapegoating, spatial
purification, and helps with jobless rate.
"Stand and Deliver" in relation with "Savage Inequalities," and "Education as the Great
Equalizer"? - ANSWER Education is not the great equalizer, but it can be if
resources/opportunities are the same and expectations are high. Everyone does not get
where they are based on merit alone. In the movie, most math teachers weren't trained
for math, accused of cheating, and students weren't provided with computers, but they
were eventually given books and a high expectation to meet.
What is tracking? - ANSWER When an individual or community is assigned
classes/districts according to whether the students' overall achievement is average,
below average, above average, etc. and are then placed in classes/districts according
to that level. They deal with people that don't fit into their track and separate
resources/opportunities/funding. The rich get richer and poor get poorer.
White and black job hiring? - ANSWER Whites with an 18 month sentence are more
likely to get hired than a black with no sentence and the same credentials (Devah Pager
study)
Predominantly white names are 50% more likely to get called back
What is environmental racism? How does it relate to Gans article? - ANSWER It looks
at the effect of racism (not motive) and says that many environmental hazards
(highways, chemical plants, subway stations) are placed in minority neighborhoods. The
poor is made to absorb unwanted parts of society because they do not have lawyers
and strong forces to fight with.
False portrayal between egg and sperm? - ANSWER Egg perceived as- passive,
wasteful, and dependent,
Sperm- active, independent, productive
Both are actually wasteful, sperm moves slow and sideways
Egg is key (ligand), sperm is lock (pocket)
According to "Gender, Class and Terrorism," how are domestic and foreign terrorists
similar? - ANSWER Younger, lower class, educated at some level, masculinity,
entitlement, economic uncertainty and downward mobility
Personal self-help=shooters
Group self-help=rampage
