SOC 150 - Essay - 1000 words
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