Overview
Textbook Chapter 5: Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, and Values
- Discuss the different patterns of socialization among middle-class parents and working-class parents
- Briefly describe the relationship between social class and domestic violence.
- Explain the three types of marital relationships that Rainwater discovered.
Texbook Chapter 6: Mobility
- Explain why sociologists studying social mobility more commonly compare fathers and sons. What special problems arise when they study the social mobility of women?
- Compare and contrast circulation mobility and structural mobility. What is the multiplier effect? Describe it with an example.
Textbook Chapter 7: Family, Education, Career
- Describe the findings of Blau and Duncan with regard to the relationship between family background, education, and career success. In what way did Jencks and his colleagues at Harvard extend the work on social mobility by Blau and Duncan?
- Describe the difference between the terms “equality of opportunity” and “equality of outcome.” What do Americans generally think about the concept of equality?
Textbook Chapter 8: Elites, Capitalist Class, and Political Power
- List and describe the three perspectives on power.
- What three groups constitute Mills’s “power elite? List and describe the three areas of agreement that Dye, Domhoff, and Lerner and colleagues have in common with Mills.
Textbook Chapter 9: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict
- How does income impact beliefs on social issues?
- Define class consciousness.
- Why is government most attentive to those who least need its help?
- List and describe three ways that capital can (and does) keep union membership low.
Textbook Chapter 10: Poverty and Public Policy
- List three policies that could be adopted by the American government that would decrease persistent poverty. Explain how each of the policies would achieve that goal. Use concrete examples wherever possible.
- The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was passed in 1996. What changes in which programs occurred as a result of this legislation?
- Explain the formula used by the federal government to determine the number of poor in the United States.