Reference no: EM133839031
Assignment:
Define social stratification and Social inequality
• What is social stratification? Why/how is it problematic?
• Types of stratification
• Ideology
• American ideology and American Dream
• Is the American Dream attainable?
• The impact and effects of globalization on inequality
• Capital and the four types of capital
• What is a theory?
• Structural functional theory
• Conflict theory and Marx's discussion on the capitalist class system
• Weber's Theory of class, status, and party
• Functions of poverty
• Difference between sex and gender
• Gender identity
• Sexism and the types of sexism
• Gender socialization
• Gender, women, and the media (Miss Representation, Kilbourne, etc.)
• Intersectionality
• Women in the workforce
• Glass ceiling
• Pay equity and comparable worth
• Challenges of employed women
• The gender revolution
• Poverty and the cycle of poverty
• Racism
• Individual and institutional racism
• Majority vs minority group
• Race and schooling
• Workplace racial inequality the four systems of social stratification.
by using the resources by:
Grusky, D. (2018). The Inequality Reader (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis.
Duncan, C. M. (2015). Worlds Apart: Poverty and Politics in Rural America (2nd ed.). Yale University Press.