Sociology 134
Flash cards for the last test in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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- Survival debt
- Charging rent, groceries, utilities and medical care on credit when no other income source is available
- "New Deal"
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt's program in 1933; a massive collection of public works projects designed to aid the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression, also stripped power from the Banking industry and large employers
- Orshansky Poverty Threshold
- Established by Statistician and economist Mollie Orshansky in the 1960s; US government calculates the number of Americans living in poverty; Assumed that food was the most primary expenditure and took the average cost of food per month and multiplies it by three
- Gratz vs Bollinger (2003)
- The Supreme Court ruled that the University of Michigan's point-based undergraduate admissions policy that took race into account numerically was too mechanical and unconstitutional
- Cultural capital
- The knowledge, experience or connections one has had through the course of their life that enables them to succeed more so than someone with a less experience background; being able to play the violin, speak multiple languages or talk knowledgeably about art
- Polysemic symbols
- Mean more than one thing at the same time; Conflicting things; Works either positively or negatively
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Democrat who aided the realignment of the Democratic party as the party of the people; creation of public works projects to pull the country out of the Great Depression
- Affirmative action
- Meant to partially address both structural-level disadvantages, like those created by funding disparities, and individual-level discrimination
- Regents of the University of California vs Bakke (1978)
- The Supreme Court held that the UC Davis medical school admissions program violated the equal protection clause with the institution of quotas for underrepresented minorities; Race could be one of the factors in university admissions
- American exceptionalism
- America's lack of social welfare state, mistrust of "government" for provision of services like heath care, infrastructure, poverty relief and relative lack of strong socialist, worker's rights or labor movements
- "Savage Inequalities"
- Authored by Kozol; exposed profound inequalities between the quality of public education in wealthy and middle class neighborhoods and working class and poor neighborhoods
- Grutter vs Bollinger (2003)
- The court ruled (5-4) that race could be used as a criterion in school admissions; University of Michigan Law School's narrowly-tailored policy was constitutional and appropriate