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PART I: Understand the Problems
Instructions: Describe and explain the following social problems
1. Differentiate between wealth and income, noting how each affects the other.
2. Contrast the Functional and Conflict approach to poverty.
3. Differentiate between human and cultural capital and apply each to the explanation for poverty.
4. Explain sex and gender from each a functional and conflict perspective.
5. Identify the social agents that shape gender inequality and describe their contributions.
PART II: Face the Issues
Instructions: Answer these thought questions with the intent of defending your answer.
1. There are only two ways to decrease the widening gap between the rich and the poor. One is to take away from the rich. The other is to increase the wealth of the poor. How would you do each of these? What would be the effect of doing each of these? What if this same principle was applied to other aspects of life, such as grades in Social Problems? Should your good grades be "distributed more equitably" to someone who has not studied as hard as you have?
2. How would you go about making a society where everyone had equal income and equal wealth? Project this society out 50 years. What would be the outcome by this time?
3. How much of our masculinity and femininity is determined by sex characteristics (nature) as opposed to gender socialization (nurture)? How can you measure how much gender socialization is biological versus social?
4. What basis, if any, exists for division of labor based on gender in the year 2012? If any exist, how can these be overcome to provide equal access to all occupations to all people?
5. Where is the source of gender stereotyping in childhood? How would you stop it? What do you think would be the outcome of such?
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