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Learning Objectives
Chapter 1
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Define the terms social inequality, social stratification, and ideology.
- Outline the development of the modern global economy.
- Write an overview of the impact of the modern global economy.
- Understand the concepts of social reproduction.
- Recall the four types of capital.
Chapter 2
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Understand Marx’s and Wright’s theories about class position.
- Define the term class.
- Explain the link between Marx and social reproduction.
- Describe what makes a power elite theory.
- Evaluate whether Marx’s assertions hold true today.
Chapter 3
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Identify the four conditions that form a modern world system.
- Compare the class systems in core and developing nations.
- Discuss the variety of working conditions found around the world.
- Explain how unions impact working conditions.
- Analyze the conditions that lead to squatter communities.
Chapter 4
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Identify the three principles of social inequality.
- Recall the four types of wealthy and powerful groups in the elite policy-making process.
- Understand the role of social reproduction.
- Define the term superclass.
- Distinguish among financial, social, cultural, and human capital.
Chapter 5
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe how upper class mothers facilitate their children’s socialization.
- Recall the three kinds of empowerment that wealthy children experience.
- Define the term hypergamy.
- Evaluate the pros and cons of superclass contributions to the political system.
- Analyze the relationship between corporations and the superclass.
Chapter 6
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Contrast the preindustrial and the industrial middle class.
- Explain how industrialization changed the family.
- Discuss the markers of a middle class childhood, schooling, and networking.
- Describe the qualities necessary for success in the middle class workplace.
- Analyze the growing economic problems of the middle class.
Chapter 7
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Recall the characteristics of working class employment.
- Discuss how World War II affected the working class.
- Explain how cultural capital has changed for the working class.
- Describe the continuing nature of many working class jobs.
- Analyze how economic conditions have affected working class employment.
Chapter 8
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Analyze the ideas of “deserving” and “undeserving” in the context of poverty.
- Discuss the history and expansion of welfare.
- Identify the fundamental challenges of the poor.
- Explain how the poor are disadvantaged in childhood.
- Evaluate the cyclical nature of poverty.
Chapter 9
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Distinguish between individual and institutional forms of racism.
- Understand the historical roots of American racism.
- Explain how race correlates with educational opportunity.
- Discuss the prevalence of racism in the media.
- Compare the circumstances of the American poor with the poor in the rest of the world.
Chapter 10
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Discuss how industrialization changed women’s roles.
- Explain how sexism persists in modern society.
- Define the term intersectionality.
- Describe the differences in the division of labor for men and women.
- Analyze how governments influence women’s work lives.
Chapter 11
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Explain the significance of effective leadership to spearheading change.
- Discuss why goals must be defensible in order to address social inequality.
- Understand the importance of cost-effectiveness in addressing social inequality.
- Evaluate whether grassroots initiatives effectively mobilize marginalized people.
- Analyze whether it is possible to launch an effective campaign against social inequality.