Social Stratification

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Chapter 8

• Social Stratification

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Global Inequity Theories

• 1. Colonialism
• Political, Economic, Cultural, and Social
  Domination of a country by a foreign power
• 2. World System Theory
• Neo Colonialism
• Economic Status
• Core MDC
• Periphery LDC
• Semi-periphery

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• 3 factors
• a. Narrow, export oriented economies
• b. Limited industrial capacity
• c. Foreign Debt
• 3. Multinational Companies
• Functionalist view
• Conflict view

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• 4. Modernization Theory
• Pre-industrial to Industrial
• Technological advances, Standard of living,
  Womens Status, Urbanization, Literacy, Health
  Care
• Inequality due to different level of
  technological advancement

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Chapter 9

• Race and Ethnic Inequality

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• Races
• Caucasian
• Negroid
• Mongoloid
• Definition of Race and Ethnicity
• Majority and Minority Groups

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• Prejudice and Stereotype ? self-fulfilling
  prophecy

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Racism

• Ideological Racism
• Individual Racism
• Institutional Racism/Institutionalized

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Discrimination
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Discrimination

• Discrimination
• Tuskegee Experiment
• Environmental Racism
• Kennedy Heights, Houston
• Real Estate Racism
• Racial Profiling

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Theories of Prejudice

• Primordialist Perspective Innate Preference
• Authoritarian Personality Theory
• Social Learning Theory
• Cultural Theory
• Explotation Theory (Marxist)
• Minorities in low-paying jobs
• Majority replaced by minority
• Industrial reserve army

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Theories of Prejudice contd

• Internal-Colonialism Theory
• The Contact Hypothesis (Sym-Int)
• Race Consciousness Perspective

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Process of Integration of the Minority Groups
into Majority

• 1. Segregation
• 2. Accommodation
• 3. Acculturation
• 4. Assimilation (structural assimilation)
• 5. Amalgamation (physical assimilation)
• 6. Miscegenation

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• Pluralism, multiculturalism
• Racial and Ethnic Groups
• African Americans
• Latin Americans
• Japanese Americans
• Population transfer internment
• Native Americans
• Population transfer
• White Ethnics
• Asian Americans

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Global Immigration

• Major Destinations
• 1920 Quota Act
• Immigration Reform Act of 1965
• Proposition 187
• Functionalist View