A: Race and Ethnicity
1. What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination, and how does each of these reinforce white privilege?
2. According to the reading in Understanding Societies, what is medical imperialism, and how can doctor's and nurses address this problem in the healthcare system?
3. What is a class-based explanation of racial inequality? Include in your answer how racism operates as an ideology.
B: Gender Inequality
1. What are three reasons for gender inequality?
2. According to the text Understanding Societies, what are some of the different ways that deviant women have been viewed throughout the 20th century?
3. What are some of the perils of masculinity and how are they connected to compulsory heterosexuality?
C: Looking Forward
1. What are the "motivating conditions" of social change?
2. Terrorism is a type of social movement or tactic for social change; what it is the link between terrorism and hypergrowth by capitalism amongst the world's richest countries?
3. According to the chapter in the Understanding Societies, "Squat the City, Rock the Courts", what was unique about the tactics used by the activists in court?
D:
How would a sociologist respond to the statement: "there is more poverty today than 30 years ago because people have different values now".