1. Does poverty perpetuate poverty? Discuss how the quality of health care, housing, education, public services such as police and fire affects equality of opportunity. How can we as a society give everybody a more equal chance at life? Can we discuss equality of opportunity with the inequality of service? How would a structural functionalist discuss these situations and how would a conflict theorist discuss these situations? What kind of different solutions would these two approaches produce?
2. Define globalization. Does globalization increase or decrease global inequality or does it do both? Discuss both positive outcomes of globalization and negative outcomes. Compare and contrast a structural functionalist view of globalization and a conflict theorist view of globalization. What is the relationship between technology and globalization? What is the relationship between immigration and globalization? How has globalization affected gender roles worldwide? Finally how does globalization affect the poor worldwide and in the United States?
Sociology 37 Midterm Words to define. Define 25 of the following words
1. Brown v. Board of Education
2. Union Shop
3. Effeminate
4. Affirmative Action
5. Economic Class
6. Downsizing
7. Negative Net Worth
8. Ruling Class
9. Pluralism
10. Oligarchy
11. Power Elite
12. Gender
13. Sex
14. Glass Ceiling
15. Occupational Segregation
16. Human Capital
17. Sexual Harassment
18. Division of Labor
19. Prejudice
20. Ethnocentric
21. Underclass
22. Ghetto
23. Polarization
24. White Collar Crime
25. Hate Crime
26. Welfare Capitalism
27. Heterogeneity
28. Civil Desobediente
29. Inequality
30. Race
31. Capitalism
32. Absolute Poverty
33. Bi-racial
34. Colonialism
35. Paternalistic
36. White Privilege
