assignment

possible concepts for extra credit — the following concepts are from chapters 1 and 2 of the text book. They are in no particular order. There could still be some concepts in chapters 1 and 2. There are most definitely more concepts in the rest of the book. This list is meant only as a suggestion.

- socioeconomic status (SES) - inequality - definition of minority group - definition of majority group

- characteristics of a minority group - racial minority group - ethnic minority group - race

- ethnicity - race as a social construction - markers of group membership - stratification - theories of Karl Marx (proletariat, bourgeoisie, means of production, importance of the economy, conflict as good

- living wage - theoretical perspective proposed by Weber

- theoretical perspective proposed by Lenski

- subsistence technology (foraging, agriculture, industrial, post-industrial)

- intersectionality (Patricia Hill Collins); matrix of domination

- relationship between power, competition, conflict

- evolution - prejudice - stereotypes - gender - discrimination - ideological racism

- institutional discrimination - miscegenation - assimilation - pluralism

- Anglo conformity - social structure - human capital theory - multi-culturalism - ethnic enclaves - separatism, forced migration, genocide, revolution

- industrial revolution - any of the different immigrant groups discussed in class

- chains of immigration - anti-Catholicism - anti-Semitism - pogrom

- push factors; pull factors - three generation model - quota system - ethnic succession

- labor unions - structural mobility - degree of similarity - ethclass - sojourners - ethnic revival