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Assignment:
1. Why do more-educated workers get paid better than the less-educated? Is this wage inequality fair?
2. Why does the working class these days pay less than the middle class? Is this wage inequality fair?
3. How has the rapidly increased class-based inequality changed the lives of Americans?
- Through what mechanism? + How does American society look?
- How far is your life different from your parents or grandparents?
1. What does it mean that race is constructed? Does this argument necessary to criticize racism?
2. What definition of "race" will be the most useful to analyze racial inequality in the US? (e.g., genes, skin tones, self-identification, culture, history, politics, etc.)
- What are the pros and cons of employing historical and statistical trend data to study racial inequality? How can we mitigate their shortcomings?
- Has racism contributed to the persistent racial inequality in the United States? How? And what other factors have worked alongside racism?
- Race and ethnicity. Which concept is more beneficial for studying social inequality that people classified as "Hispanic/Latinx or Asian Americans" face? Especially when these groups recognize themselves as ethnic groups (e.g., Mexican Americans, Korean Americans, etc.), not racial groups?
Q1: When should we consider gender inequality and sexuality-based inequality together? And when can we examine them separately?
Q2: Sexism can take various forms in our social life. In your thought or according to an author, which type of sexism still reproduces gender inequality today? And which type of sexism comes to fade away?
Q3: In discussing gender inequality, we tend to focus on the unequal relationship between general men and general women. Which women or sexual minorities do most discussions omit? And why should we consider that group more seriously?