Unit 2 People

Question 1

Inequality in society is a result of different individual abilities

Answer 1

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 2

Inequality for All

Answer 2

Robert Reich

Question 3

middle class is disappearing compared to different time periods. The workers have low pay and longer hours. More women entering workforce. Homeowners are borrowing equity from the value of their homes. The gap is has been increasingly growing between CEO and lowest employee. Unions help.

Answer 3

Robert Reich

Question 4

Culture of Poverty (studied Mexicans)

Answer 4

Oscar Lewis

Question 5

Conley’s critique on his argument: circular reasoning, and he didn’t do his own field research.

Answer 5

Edward Banfield

Question 6

Poverty is a result of structural forces. Focused on the changes in globalization and deindustrialization, which changed the debate on poverty.

Answer 6

William Julius Wilson

Question 7

Underclass

Answer 7

Ken Auletta

Question 8

Researched childhood poverty. Effect of income on child outcomes have been overstated.

Answer 8

Susan Mayer

Question 9

perverse incentives

Answer 9

Charles Murray

Question 10

affordable housing in nice neighborhood. Segregation housing

Answer 10

Douglas Massey

Question 11

poor women put motherhood before marriage. Low income women don’t get married because they think they have to be economically stable themselves.

Answer 11

Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas

Question 12

Japanese guy who wanted to be white to get white citizenship and privilege. Underscored how citizenship is synonymous with whiteness.

Answer 12

Takao Ozawa

Question 13

“American Apartheid”

Answer 13

Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton

Question 14

Dual housing market caused by racial wealth gap

Answer 14

Eduardo Silva-Bonilla

Question 15

High levels of immigration = low crime

Answer 15

Robert Sampson

Question 16

diverse, big, open cities = LOTS of Church growth

Answer 16

Stark