Study guide for Chapter 13: Crime

Study guide for Chapter 13: Crime

 

1.       types of violent crime

2.       relationship between age and crime

3.       relationship between race and crime

4.       relationship between gender and crime

5.       What percentage of those in state and federal prisons are men?

6.       Of the people arrested in the United States, what percent are African Americans?

7.       David Cole, No Equal Justice

8.       homicide rate in the United States compared to other countries

9.       Stanton Samenow

10.   American Psychiatric Association’s claims with respect to criminal behavior

11.   anomie theory

12.   conflict theory, social conflict theory

13.   Gottfredson and Hirschi, self-control theory

14.   Travis Hirschi, social control theory, the four social bonds

15.   Willem Bonger

16.   Jeffrey Reiman

17.   Robert Agnew, general strain theory

18.   differential association theory

 

19.   containment theory

 

 

Gender Study Guide

Gender Study Guide

CHAPTER 4: GENDER

1.      West and Zimmerman: “doing gender” and “having gender.”

2.      Gender wage difference for those with a bachelor’s degree

3.      Dr. M. Gigi Durham: The Lolita Effect

a.       five common myths related to the Lolita effect

4.      gender and religion

5.      beliefs of feminists

6.      Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

7.      the third wave of the feminist movement

8.      trends in the percentage of women attending college

9.      As men and women achieve higher levels of education, what happens to the income gap between them?

10.  how employers perceive mothers

11.  the number-one killer of women in the United States

12.  Feminists seek to achieve what goals?

13.  the difference between liberal feminists and radical feminists

14.  Examples of abuse

15.  sex

16.  patriarchy

17.  gender roles

18.  How do functionalists see gender?

“Damned if You Do, Doomed if You Don’t.”

 

19.  A survey of 1,231 senior executives from the United States and Europe found that women who act in ways that are consistent with gender stereotypes — defined as focusing “on work relationships” and expressing “concern for other people’s perspectives” — are considered less competent. But if they act in ways that are seen as more “male” — like “act assertively, focus on work task, display ambition” — they are seen as “too tough” and “unfeminine.”

 

20.  predicaments of women executives

Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever

 

21.  Which gender is better at negotiating salaries and raises?

22.  Linda Babcock argues that over a lifetime, a starting salary difference of $5,000 can accumulate to a difference of over $500,000 (assuming 3 percent yearly raise and banking the difference into a 3 percent savings account).

Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik Cornell University

 

 

23.  According to research discussed in class, which gender pays a wage penalty for having children?

 

 

Study guide for race and immigration

Study guide for race and immigration

CHAPTER 3: RACE AND IMMIGRATION

1.       the racial categories that the U.S. Census uses

2.       examples of institutional discrimination

a.       Jim Crow laws

b.       environmental discrimination

c.       poor-quality schools

d.       inadequate public transportation

3.       middle-income black families in white neighborhoods (describe their experience)

4.       What happens when African Americans become successful? (describe their experience)

5.       Ellis Cose in The Rage of the Privileged Class

6.       racial and ethnic inequality by educational attainment

7.       Why do immigrants cluster in ethnic enclaves?

8.       William J. Wilson

9.       Elijah Anderson, in Code of the Street

10.   assimilation

11.   proponents of “English Only” laws

12.   ethnocentrism

13.   color-blind racism

14.   stereotype

15.   prejudice

16.   Research shows that ongoing segregation in the United States is driven by what factors?

Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy 

17.   By the early 1970s, the vast majority of whites endorsed equal access to employment and the integration of public transportation.

18.   By the mid-1990s, whites showed near-universal endorsement for the principle of public school integration.

19.   Negative racial stereotypes remain the norm in white America.

20.   Between half and three-quarters of whites still express some degree of negative stereotyping of blacks and Latinos.

21.   The share of whites asserting that persisting racial discrimination is the main cause of inequality remained constant at 20 percent between 1977 and 2004.

22.   12.6 percent of whites said access to a good education is the primary barrier to blacks’ upward mobility in 2004, nearly double the figure in 1977.

23.   Between one-fifth and one-quarter of whites believe that blacks and Latinos face “a lot” of discrimination in the labor market.

24.   Upwards of two thirds of blacks as well as 60 percent of Latinos believe that structural barriers inhibit their groups’ upward mobility.

25.   group that exhibits the strongest preference for same-race neighbors

26.   study conducted by Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004)

 

27.   Pager (2003) study

Activity Assignment 3 - Female Body Image and Bias

Activity Assignment 3 - Female Body Image and Bias

Due date:

The day of the third midterm

How to turn in:

Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 3.

Point value:

This activity is worth 20 points. 

Considerations:

We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt.

Resubmission policy:

Any paper that receives a score of 19 or less (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. You will have until the next exam to resubmit. No late resubmissions will be accepted. 

Assignment:

Write an essay giving your reactions to two videos. The first is “The Strength to Resist: The Media’s Impact on Women & Girls.” If you were not here for the video, you can watch it at the Cuesta library on the SLO campus. The second is “Weight Prejudice: Myths and Facts.” If you were not here for the video, you can watch it online at http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/what_we_do.aspx?id=254.

You can write an essay that combines your thoughts about both videos, or you can write an essay that has two sections—one section for each video. Summarize the arguments made in the videos and assess their claims.

Questions to think about (You do not have to respond to all the items. You are not restricted to this list.):

Describe the pressures that girls and women face with respect to body image.

To what extent do we endorse or resist messages about body image in the media and other places?

What impact to those messages and others that internalize those messages have on those that do not fit the ideal?

Grading rubric:

1. essay demonstrates that you watched both videos

2. essay demonstrates the sociological imagination

3. it is well written 

4. it is at least one page, double-spaced (at least 300 words)

weight bias videos

http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/what_we_do.aspx?id=254