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Kassy Murad

Exam 2 Study Guide Outline

· Poverty and the Economy

1. What is poverty?

a. What is the difference between wealth and income?

b. Remember that poverty is intimately linked to government involvement.

c. Unequal distribution = leading cause of poverty

2. What are the three explanations of inequality?

d. Which explanation of inequality refers to the term of “reganomics”?

e. In globalization “race to the bottom” means the cheapest price for something.

3. Define capitalism

f. What are 3 characteristics of capitalism? What do they mean?

g. What does the term “invisible hand” refer too?

h. Understand the reason why the US is not truly a capitalist nation. What are some of examples of why it isn’t?

4. Define Corporation

a. Define implications? Where are implications seen the most?

c. What are labor unions? What do they protect?

d. Capitalism = Anti-labor unions

e. ***Remember that Poverty is NOT an accident, that it is linked to capitalist economic systems***

f. Define Social and Cultural Capital. Understand they role play.

· Social Stratification

1. Define Ethnicity.

a. What are some qualities that ethnic groups share?

2. Define Race.

b. Remember that race does not share a sense of identity.

3. Know the difference between racism and ethnocentrism.

c. What is color-blind racism? Give example.

d. What is white-privilege? Give example.

e. What is model minority? Give example.

4. Name some ways that social stratification is categorized?

5. What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

a. Name two racial ideologies?

b. Name two stereotypes? Be able to identify the two.

6. What are the theories behind racial/ethnic inequalities? Understand the basis behind each.

a. Define institutionalized discrimination.

b. How does Institutionalized inequality affect education? Employment?

c. What are some of the explanations for employment inequalities?

d. What is the glass cage effect?