Calvin College

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 ...

According to article #6, Media Magic, the poor are _____________. Eyesore T or F: Media seeks to have its audience identify with the poor. False T or F: The news media inverts reality so that those who are working class and middle class learn to fear, resent, and blame those below, rather than those above them in the class structure. True T or F: In article #20, The Return of "Separate but Equal", poor people of color are especially likely to wind up in schools filled w...

reciprocal interaction Two-way interaction between a person and the external world: the person acts upon and responds to the external world, and the quality of those actions affects the external world's reactions (and vice versa) Assessment Gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing information to provide a concise picture of the client and his or her needs and strengths Secondary or Host Settings A setting in which social work is not the only or not the primary profession, as when...

Reformed perspective of diversity and inequality Three Levels of Social Life: (Social) Structure, Culture, (Human) Agency Examples/Definitions of Each: 1 - (Social) Structure: SHAPES OPPORTUNITIES External factors outside of one's control that shape the lives of individuals ex: disasters, war, poverty, societal change 2 - Culture: (medium level): The ENTIRE way of life of a group of people that acts as a LENS through which one views the world - passed from one generation to ...

Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap Meizhu Lui -racial wealth gap has nothing to do with individual behaviors or cultural deficits, gov policies have transferred wealth from nonwhites to whites -federal policies created the basis for the current racial wealth divide -Native Americans-US took land and natural resources and gave it to white individuals -African Americans-wealth created from the unpaid labor of blacks, the use of violence to stop black wealth creation -Latinos-trade and imm...

Values Ideas about what we believe is preferable or ideal Standards to define good or bad General guidance for behavior A set of values becomes a value system Ethics Related to what we consider correct or right Generate standards of behavior "Values in action" Microethics guides direct practice macroethics guides organizations and social policy standards A requirement of moral conduct; rule used as basis for judgment Foundation of social work values...

Socialization Of Culture ... Culture The ideas, values, customs, food, language and artifacts of a group of people socialization learning the culture of a group Agents of socialization individuals who teach us the culture of the surrounding Social institutions structures that provide a venue for patterned relationships- where we learn norms, values & practices.. Ex: Families, education, religion, economy/work, gov't & politics, social justice Differences...

1.1: Weber recounts her experience as a tennis player. She concludes that her _____ was an obstacle Social Class 1.2: What are the benefits of studying race, class, gender and sexuality according to Weber? -We recognize that we have all contributed to the oppression of others. -We recognize that we have limiting views of ourselves. -We recognize that there is a cost in maintaining dominance. 1.3: Occupy social positions in which they gain knowledge of a dominant group without g...

The web of cultural practices that serve to exploit and deprive some groups exists through: A. Privileges such as the male privilege and the white privilege B. Notions of inherent intellectual, emotional, and mental deficits C. The fields of education and leadership D. Due to liberal feminism A Ideologies and theoretical considerations that were developed from the experiential factors of women constitute: A. Marxism B. Environmental capitalism C. Feminism D. Women's rights C ...

Reformed perspective of diversity & inequality creation-God created diversity and was happy about it, loved equally but differently fall- sin corrupted equality-stratification Redemption- God works through us to restore and redeem equality and we become agents of renewal Three Levels of Social Life Human Agency, Culture, and Social Structure Human Agency an individuals exercise of free will through decisions and activities ex. thinking critically, freedom of speech Cul...