SOC 150 - Essay - 1000 words
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Day #14 of 20:
SOC150: SOCIAL PROBLEMS
June 19th, 2018
UIBE SUMMER SCHOOL
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Asian Americans Success
Chinese Success Stories
Racist Immigration Policies
Racist Policies
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 • The Immigration Act of 1924 • The Immigration Act of 1965
1965 coincided with civil rights for Blacks & Poverty
The Distinctiveness of the United States
• 2nd highest average income
• The biggest in wage gap • The highest poverty rate • The worst ‘depth of poverty’ statistics
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Poverty in the US tells us about …
• The long term consequences of well being • Broad economic consequences for everyone • The magnitude of present and future social problems.
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Why look at poverty when the US is so wealthy?
• It is a defining condition for nearly 40 percent of the population
• It allows us to trace the history of America’s development, especially from the history of labor
• It shows the entrenchments of contradictions in America’s ideology about meritocratic rewards and about democracy
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Views of poverty in 19th century America
nThe rise of standard budgets nPoor people were welfare-reliant nToday’s poor, especially since 1996, are work-reliant
nThe Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
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Two Ways of Defining Poverty
• Absolute poverty: a basket of goods for subsistence
USA model
• Relative poverty: a relation to a community’s standard of living
European Union Model, the Japanese Model, and the Australian Model
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