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· Identify the principles of inequality. How do we see these principles at work in A Class Divided?

· What are the various standards of equality discussed in your textbook?

· What is the essentialist perspective on race and gender - What are the core tenets of this perspective? What evidence supports it and/or contradicts it?

· What is the social constructionist perspective on race and gender - What are the core tenets of this perspective? What evidence supports it/contradicts it?

· What is the process of gender construction?

· What is gender stratification? What evidence is there in our course materials?

· To what extent are gender inequality and the media connected (think about Assignment 2)?

· According to the slides, what are some of the outcomes of the feminist movements?

· What are concrete, empirical examples of racial inequality?

· What determines social class according to Marx, Erik Olin Wright, Weber?

· What does the evidence show us about the distributions of income and wealth in the US?

· Why is social stratification universal according to a functionalist and a conflict perspective?

· Be able to discuss the consequences of one's class position. How does social class determine health (physical and mental), education, family, employment, crime, and politics?

· How is the Horatio Alger myth functional for society?

· What is social mobility? What did the Monopoly games show us about the role of luck, skills, and one's social location in achieving social mobility?

· What are the myths v realities of race in the textbook and in the film clip, Race: The Power of Illusion?

· Broadly speaking, be familiar with the experiences of various race/ethnic groups as presented in the textbook in Chapters 9

and Remember that White is a racial category.

· Describe the research findings in the article "Muslims in America."

· Why are people prejudiced? What is the difference between individual and institutional discrimination?