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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
- 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