Posted: December 2nd, 2015
SOC I3324 Tackett – Gibson Final Essay Exam, In Poverty in the United State
SOC
I3324
Tackett
–
Gibson
Final
Essay Exam
Chapters from
assigned chapters in
Bruggemann,
Aftershock
, and
Where We Stand:
Class Matters
(see syllabus for full citation).
I will select two essay questions from this list for your exam. B
e prepared to provide 2
–
3
pages 1.5 spaced and 12
pt.
font for each question. Be organized in your responses.
PLEASE
use paragraphs liberally.
Grades will be reduced on essays that do not use
paragraphs.
Citations and a citation page are not required, howe
ver I do need to see
evidence of reading and a discussion of the author’s arguments in the essay.
I do not grade
on grammar or spelling, but please do your best to create a clean document.
If you do not own the book, you will find some chapters in the “Bo
ok Chapters” section of
Blackboard. There are selections there, however in some cases the selections provided are
slightly different than those available in Brueggemann. For example, I offer a couple of
chapters of a book from which an excerpt was taken (t
he readings I have attached are
longer than those in Brueggemann).
(1)
In
“Poverty in the United States: An Overview”
,
Brown presents key facts about the
nature, extent, and causes of poverty in the U.S. He makes
the point that
Americans
tend to explain the causes of povert
y in terms of personal and individual causal
factors
.
What does Brown mean when he says people explain the causes of poverty
in an “individualistic” manner?
What are some examples of these
explanations?
What are some of the arguments he makes to counter these explanations? Why do
you think that
individualistic
explanations
are attractive to the public?
(2)
In
Bonil
l
a
–
Silva’s article, he
describes
an ideology of racism
—
“color
–
blind racism”
—
that is widespread in contemporary American society.
He outlines four “frames” of
color
–
blind racism. Define and discuss each frame? Offer examples of each frame
and
disc
uss how they perpetuate institutional racism in the U.S.?
(3)
According to Dye, what are the most important individual characteristics of those
who are elected to high political office? Would you say that Dye’s approach to
analyzing how politicians come to ass
ume political office is consistent with a
“conflict” or a “functionalist” approach to stratification?
Why?
(4)
Think about Robert Reich’s book, Aftershock. What is the “basic bargain”? When did
it originate and what did it do in terms of inequality and economi
c growth?
According to Reich, what is the status of the “basic bargain” today and what are
some changes in labor that have influenced the bargain? What are Reich’s
suggestions for invigorating the bargain?
(5)
In their article, “Intersectionality” (see Bruggem
ann article folder
in readings
),
Browne and Misra define “intersectionality”. They assert that race, class and gender
cumulatively impact employment outcomes for some women. What is
intersectionality? According to Browne and Misra, how does it impact women
of
color? Can you see evidence of intersectionality in bell hook’s experience? Why or
why not?
In Poverty in the United States: An Overview, Brown presents key facts about the nature, extent, and causes of poverty in the U.S. He makes the point that Americans tend to explain the causes of poverty in terms of personal and individual causal factors. What does Brown mean when he says people explain the causes of poverty in an individualistic manner? What are some examples of these explanations? What are some of the arguments he makes to counter these explanations? Why do you think that individualistic explanations are attractive to the public? (2) Think about Robert Reichs book, Aftershock. What is the basic bargain? When did it originate and what did it do in terms of inequality and economic growth? According to Reich, what is the status of the basic bargain today and what are some changes in labor that have influenced the bargain? What are Reichs suggestions for invigorating the bargain?
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