Soc 103 - Review for Exam #2 (Fall 2020)
Article 21 “Sex and Gender through the Prism of Difference”
Gender Inequality
Gender roles, gender socialization, gender inequality
Traditional division of labor in the household
Women’s labor force increase – reasons
Educational attainment by gender over time
Percentage of women in different fields
Women’s earnings as compared to men
Earnings inequality – reasons
Aging
Trends leading to graying of society
Reasons for aging of U.S.
Social gerontology (uses sociological imagination)
Aging (biological, psychological, social)
Technology – effects on 3 aging processes
Assistive technologies
Employment changes based on age
First generation of theories on aging – Functionalism (disengagement, activity, continuity)
Second generation of theories on aging – Social conflict
Third generation of theories on aging – Life course perspective
Young old, old old, oldest old
Generation gaps in perception of aging
History of poverty among the elderly (percentages) (reasons for decline)
Social security, Medicare (percentage of Americans supporting Medicare and Soc. Sec.)
Immigration
History of immigration
Reasons for slowing of immigration in early 1900’s
Open-door immigration policy
Naturalization Act of 1790
Immigration Act of 1921, 1924
Immigration Act of 1952 (changes)
Immigration Act of 1965
Changes in racial and ethnic composition of U.S. population (continuing)
Assimilation, Ethnic Disadvantage Perspective, Segmented Assimilation Perspective
3 dimensions of assimilation (Education, Income, Residential Segregation)
Residential Segregation
Rust Belt
Sun Belt
Reasons for move
States with largest population growth
New popular immigrant destinations
Immigration to Sun Belt instead of Rust Belt
Subu
an living
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation
Isolation Index
Economic Residential Segregation
Classic economic theories of migration (push factors, pull factors)
Comparing push/pull factors of Great migration to push/pull factors of today