Unit 2 People Flashcards
(16 cards)
Inequality in society is a result of different individual abilities
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inequality for All
Robert Reich
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.
Robert Reich
Culture of Poverty (studied Mexicans)
Oscar Lewis
Conley’s critique on his argument: circular reasoning, and he didn’t do his own field research.
Edward Banfield
Poverty is a result of structural forces. Focused on the changes in globalization and deindustrialization, which changed the debate on poverty.
William Julius Wilson
Underclass
Ken Auletta
Researched childhood poverty. Effect of income on child outcomes have been overstated.
Susan Mayer
perverse incentives
Charles Murray
affordable housing in nice neighborhood. Segregation housing
Douglas Massey
poor women put motherhood before marriage. Low income women don’t get married because they think they have to be economically stable themselves.
Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Japanese guy who wanted to be white to get white citizenship and privilege. Underscored how citizenship is synonymous with whiteness.
Takao Ozawa
“American Apartheid”
Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton
Dual housing market caused by racial wealth gap
Eduardo Silva-Bonilla
High levels of immigration = low crime
Robert Sampson
diverse, big, open cities = LOTS of Church growth
Stark