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