What are some long-term effects of educational inequality?

1. listen to parts one and two of This American Life: The problem we all live with; https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-one

How does this program illustrate racial inequality?

What are some long-term effects of educational inequality?

Why is integration a good solution to inequality?

What theoretical perspective does this best fit?

Does this give us some ideas about how to solve other issues of racial inequality?

2. Implicit bias are the unconscious reactions we have to internalized stereotypes. Harvard is doing a study on implicit bias that allows you to take a test about implicit bias. Go to https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html and take one or more tests. You do not have to talk about your results here (although you may if you would like). Relate this test to class readings and lectures and explain how it relates to concepts of privilege and discrimination. If you feel comfortable talking about your own feelings about the results and the test you may do so. For information about how this research is actually being used, there was an article just published about this study.

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/01/11/implicit-bias-gay-black-weight

3. Choose two of the following articles about gender issues and answer all of the questions for each.

How does the sociological perspective differ from popular ideas on this topic?

What are the major issues of gender inequality that are addressed?

What are some possible solutions?

Evaluate this topic from at least 2 of the 3 sociological perspectives (Check in the resources below)

Sexual harassment in law professions

Incarcerated women

abortion stigma

When women lead

The politics of peeing

pregnancy discrimination

harassment

mass-shootings-and-the-“man”ifesto

Sport and sexuality

soldier suicides

Morality and maybe moms

When women mobilize

gendering intelligence

or any of the other gender related articles here https://thesocietypages.org/trot/

Resources

Sociology’s Three Major Theoretical Perspectives

Three classical research perspectives used in sociology are described in your textbook. You will note that two perspectives employ a macro level of analysis and the other employs a micro level of analysis. Macro-level analyses are research focused on large-scale patterns of society. Micro-level analyses focus on social interaction—what people think and do, what social influences are present, and how perceptions of those social influences shape behavior.

These perspectives are briefly described below to aid you in conceptualizing how they are interrelated. (Hold your cursor over the green type for key term definitions.)

Table 1.1 Comparison of Sociology’s Three Major Theoretical Perspectives

Think about this…

Which perspective would best explain why there seem to be so many poor people in America although we are among the richest countries on earth?

 

Make sure you answer all questions and use only class resources. All resources must be followed by in –

text-citation and references for full point.