SOC 150 - Essay - 1000 words

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SOC 150: SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Key Words and Ideas from Week 1-4

1. Individualism

2. Meritocracy

3. Accumulation paradox

4. Equality of opportunity

5. Hour glass economy

6. Winter-take-all markets

7. Paradox of education

8. Primary labor market

9. Secondary labor market

10. Enclave labor market

11. Comparative spending

12. Expenditure cascades

13. Theories of social mobility

14. Statistical discrimination

15. Study on poor black men (Marked)

16. Study on rich white women (Selling Women Short)

17. Occupational inheritance

18. The missing class

19. Privatization

20. Deregulation

21. Deindustrialization

22. Export economies

23. Structural adjustment policies

24. International monetary fund

25. Bretton Woods Conference in 1944

26. Expulsions class

27. Precarity

28. Neoliberalism

29. Old immigration versus new immigration

30. Equilibrium theory of immigration

31. Structural historical theory of immigration

32. Social networks theory of immigration

33. Robert E. Park

34. Three economic zones of the earth (core, periphery, and semi-periphery)

35. The Europeanization of the global economy

36. Migration of slaves during the colonial period

37. 1619 Jamestown, Virginia

38. The Transcontinental Railroad

39. The evolution of consumer culture

40. Chinese labor 1848-1924

41. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

42. Immigration Act of 1924

43. Immigration Act of 1965

44. Welfare-Reliant versus Work-Reliant

45. Absolute measurement of poverty

46. Relative measurement of poverty

47. Depth of poverty

48. Concentrated poverty

49. Segregation

50. Drug dealing as rational choice