Week 9, 10

Question 1

What is class-consciousness

Answer 1

It is an idea where there is a sense of commonality between one class because they share similar economic positions

Question 1

Explain Karl Marx and socialism

Answer 1

Karl Marx was a socialist in the 1900s who focused on how classes interact with each other

He referred to them as Proletariats and bourgeoisie. In which Bourgeoise are the ones who own means of production

Proletariats are the ones who are working the means of production

Question 2

How does class consciousness effect the workforce

Answer 2

As class consciousness rises there a higher demand for better wages, working conditions and secure employment

Question 3

What is social stratification and give an example as to why it is important

Answer 3

It is a hierarchical system of inequality that is based on class, SES.

Upper, middle working and lower classes.
(a poor black man is not given the same opportunities as a rich white man)

Question 4

Conflict theory (income inequality)

Answer 4

There is an imbalance between the Proletariats and the bourgeoise because the pay is not equal to the work output the workers give and disallows for any upward social mobility.

Question 5

Functionalism (income inequality)

Answer 5

Competition drives people to work harder

Question 6

Feminism (Income inequality)

Answer 6

They look at more than just income inequality, but rather class, gender, racialization

Question 7

Symbolic interactionalism (income inequality)

Answer 7

Looks at how people give meaning to social stratification

Question 8

Conspicuous consumption

Answer 8

Where people buy goods to express class and social status

Question 9

What is the difference between exchange and structural mobility

Answer 9

Exchange mobility refers to limited mobility meaning that you can only move up if there is a vacant spot, whereas structural mobility is when there is the creation of new jobs for upward mobility

Question 10

Meritocracy

Answer 10

The belief in which people move social classes based on their own merit

Question 11

Wealth vs Income

Answer 11

Wealth is transferable and cumulative

Income is not an indicator of wealth

Question 12

Explain Racism in the industry

Answer 12

It is racism in soceities workplace that disallows for the progression of work

Question 13

Name the 3 Dimensions of Racialization

Answer 13

Material: the physical attributes and how they acquire meaning (people who stutter are seen as less intelligent)

Imaginary: the group of people who are seen as part of the culture or against (us vs them mentality)

Discursive: how language, their representation towards societies can make racialization (brown people make bombs)

Question 14

Describe diaspora

Answer 14

these are groups of people that live outside their homeland.

1. dispersion: seperated by national borders
2. Homeland orientations: communities are oriented toward a distant homeland
3. Boundary maintance: communites are cohesive and exclude outsiders

Question 15

Proletariat

Answer 15

needs that is access means of production and sell their labour to satisfy their needs

Question 16

Bourgeoise

Answer 16

interests to access the means of production to satisfy their needs and maintain their control over the means of production

Question 17

Dominant idealogy

Answer 17

Set of value and belief put forward by bourgeoise to justify their dominant position in society

Question 18

Hegemony

Answer 18

the cultural dynamic by which a group claims and sustains a leading position in social life

Example, Hitler’s party was the dominant group in 1940

Question 19

Discrimination

Answer 19

Distinction and exclusive treatment based on an arbitrary trait such as race

Question 20

Double consciousness

Answer 20

who share and have two separate identities

Jagpreet works at Hyundai and is forced to adopt white values, but at home, he is cooking butter chicken with his Indian Identity

Question 21

Functionalism and Racialization

Answer 21

Ethnic identity provides social connectedness in an individualistic society

Question 22

Conflict Theory and Racialization

Answer 22

Dominant groups benefit from excluding and marginalizing minority groups

Question 23

Symbolic interactionalism and Racialization

Answer 23

Ethnic differentiation is constructed by labelling

Question 24

Critical race theory

Answer 24

Racialization is a performance and a social construction rather than a reflection of innate, biological qualities

Question 25

Code switching

Answer 25

Being able to change language dialect, class and often culture Ming can change between Mandarin and English as well as switch from talking about Ping pong to Tennis

Question 26

Diaspora

Answer 26

The scattering of any group of people outside their home and that provides roots to home Ming is a Chinese boy in Ghana who practices calligraphy

Question 27

Instituionalized racism

Answer 27

Where companies, governments and other political instituions only catered their laws to white people Ming is a Canadian Chinese boy who cannot get a Vaccine shot because the shots are meant for weak, old white men

Question 28

eugenics

Answer 28

the selective mating of individuals with specific traits

Question 29

Orientalism

Answer 29

A view that exaggerates and distorts features of people and cultures from Asia

Question 30

essentialism

Answer 30

Essentialism is the belief that people or groups have inherent, fixed traits — that certain characteristics (like gender, race, or intelligence) are natural, unchangeable, and biologically determined.