Soc 102 Final
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- Functionalist Perspective of Poverty and homelessness
- -View inequality as a necessity for the maintenance of society. -Extremes between rich and poor are common in most societies and are a result of MALFUNCTIONS WITHIN THE ECONOMY.
- Conflict Perspective of Poverty and Homelessness
- -High level of inequality we find in the US is NOT INEVITABLE. -Argues that the economic system of CAPITALIST countries operates to create and perpetuate a high degree of economic inequality. -Political action as the most effective tool to combat poverty.
- Interactionist Perspective of Poverty and Homelessness
- -Focus on the CULTURAL DIFFERENCES between poor and the wealthy. -Poor people need to help change individual SELF-IMAGE shaped by defeat and rejection. -Poverty TRAPS poor people psychologically, economically and socially.
- What is home?
- -Prior 1960s= place where family lives. -1960s=fixed address -1980s=private space
- Reasons for increase in Shelter use?
- 1) 3,500 new shelters built 2) relaxed rules 3) upgraded facilities 4) alternatives 5) Families 6) recession/economy
- Deinstitutionalization
- -Sought to reduce the number of patients in state mental hospitals. -Different policies moved patients to different places (such as casting them to the streets or homeless shelters).
- The Crack Epidemic
- -Arrival of crack in mid 1980s. -Helped explain the increase in homelessness from 1984-1988, when unemployment was falling.
- Jobs among Men
- -Joblessness in men rose to 10.5% in September 2009, due to recession -largest job losses are in construction, manufacturing and gov.
- Jobs/marriage among women
- -Women\'s personal incomes were rising. -Marriages (other main source of economic support) are in decline.
- Shortage of Affordable Housing
- SROs replaced by shopping malls, buildings, ect. (GENTRIFICATION) -Destruction of low income houseing made it harder to create house for poor when numbers began to grow.
- Solutions for Affordable housing?
- -More affordable housing -Imrpove Disability benefits -Families with Children (reduce racial/economic segregation)
- Health Care care reform can help people EXCEPT....
- Increase in prescription drug costs
- Absolute Poverty
- Defined as having insufficient resources to provide a minimum standard of living. -individuals/familes who income is AT OR BELOW the federal poverty threshold.
- Why would the number of individuals with disabilities keep increasing?
- -Have more medical technology, so there is more ways to diagnosis a persons problem.
- Heath Care reform?
- -to control escalating care costs. -assure high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans -Invest in prevention and wellness
- Functionalist Perspective for Health Care
- -Draws attention to how changes in society affect. -Addresses the function and disfunctions of the medial industry (focuses on institution) MACRO
- Extreme Poverty
- is those who are at 50% or lower on the poverty threshold.
- Relative Poverty
- Not used much
- Conflict Perspective of Health Care
- Patterns of heath and illness reflect systematic inequalities based on ethnicity/race or gender, and also difference in power, values and interests. (MACRO)
- Interactionalist Perspective of Health Care
- -Acknowledges how illness is created and sustained according toa set of shared SOCIAL beliefs and definitions. -Address how SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL meanings effect our definition and response to heath and illness (MICRO)
- redlining
- denying mortgage loans to minority neighborhoods
- Geographic steering
- discouraging minorities from any neighborhood that wasn\'t majority minorities
- What questions could be asked by those who possess a sociological imagination?
- -What is the structure of the society? -Where does the society stand in human history? -What varieties of men and women have power in the society?
- Cultural Capital
- Knowledge of \'higher culture\' such as art and music, which is rewarded in the education system.
- US health care system remains unique among industrialized nations because...
- -The system is in private hands -the system proides care on a a fee-for-service basis and a multi-payer system.