7.3: Study Guide for Part VI

Minority Studies: A Brief Text: Study Guide for Part VI—Hate Kills! The Consequences of Bigotry

• Be able to define and discuss stratification/inequality stratification
  • The unequal distribution of the goods of society
    • Wealth, power, status
  • Social inequality
    • A system in which people are denied access to the goods of society based on their group membership
• Define, discuss, and give examples of master status
  • Review master statusRace or ethnicity, sex or gender, age, religion, disability, and SESSES
    • Socioeconomic Status= income+education+occupation
  • Define and discuss SES
    • What is SES and how does it impact peoples’ lives?
• The stratification hierarchy
  • Where someone is placed in terms of access to wealth, power, and status
  • Based on various aspects of their master status
  • How does the stratification hierarchy affect
    • Racial and ethnic minorities?
    • Women?
    • Sexual orientation minorities?
    • Religious minorities?
    • The disabled?
• Define Thomas’s Theorem and explain how it relates to issues of stratification/inequality
  • How do our concepts of reality affect the way we judge others?
  • Discuss the ways in which the human mind creates social categories
  • Define and discuss stereotypes
    • How many stereotypes about groups other than your own can you list?
      • Are any of these stereotypes true?
      • Why or why not?
    • How many stereotypes about your own group can you list?
      • Are any of these stereotypes true?
      • Why or why not?
• Look at the World Demographic “Clock” and explain what it shows
  • What did you learn from this that you did not know before?
• Find data that break down world demographics into percentages.“If the World Were a Village of 100 People.”
  • If the World Were a Village of 100 People
  • If the World Were a Village of 100 People (2)
  • If the World Were a Village of 100 People (YouTube video)
• Define, discuss, and give examples of Infant Mortality Rates, Literacy Rates, Life Expectancy, and GDP/GNP in the richest and poorest nations in the world
  • The World Health Organization
  • The United Nations
• Define, discuss, and give examples of expulsion
  • The Trail of Tears
  • Japanese-American internment
• Define, dicusss, and give examples of genocide
  • UN Convention on Genocide
  • The Crime of Genocide
  • Genocide: Meaning and Definition