Introduction to Sociology - Online
Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes, Videos & Web Sites

Unit 7: Class & Gender Inequality

Readings:

Social Class

Macionis, Society: The Basics, chapter 8 ("Social Stratification")

“Texas Poverty 101”

Sabrina Tavernise, "Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing," New York Times, February 12, 2016

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel and Dimed" (excerpt)

Peter Kaufman, "Exploitation at Home: Matthew Desmond’s Evicted," Everyday Sociology, June 28, 2016

Karen Sternheimer, "Evictions and the Paradox of Poverty," Everyday Sociology, July 1, 2016

"States Adding Drug Test as Hurdle for Welfare", New York Times, October 10, 2011)

"The Real Budgets of McDonald's Workers" (view the five slides)

Richard Fry & Paul Taylor, "A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93%", Pew Research Center: Social and Demographic Trends, April 23, 2013

“Apple Factories accused of exploiting Chinese workers,” The Observer, April 30, 2011

View these brief videos:

"How the Other Half Lives" (click to watch this)

"America's Distribution of Wealth (1955)"

 

"Wealth Inequalty in America"

 

Visit the following Web Sites:

Child Labor in America 1908-1912
Inequality.org (View "Data and Statistics")
Global Rich List

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 - present
Co-op America: Sweatshops: Retailer Scorecard

National Center for Children in Poverty
National Coalition for the Homeless
The Samaritan Inn
National Low-Income Housing Coalition - Out of Reach (View data for Texas)
The Hunger Site
America’s Second Harvest

Gender

Macionis, Society: The Basics, chapter 10 ("Gender Stratification")

Lisa Wade, "The Truth About Gender and Math" Sociological Images, March 7, 2013

Philip Cohen, "The Banal, Insidious Sexism of Smurfette" , The Atlantic, August 9, 2013

Lisa Hix, "War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era,"
Collector's Weekly, November 1, 2012

"Americans Split Over New LGBT Protections, Restroom Policies," Gallup Poll, Politics, May 18, 2017

Lisa Wade, "Gender and the Body Language of Power", Sociological Images, December 27, 2013

Lisa Wade, "Sex and Love in and After College: Q & A Exchange with Sari Cooper," The Society Pages, May 3, 2017

Michelle J. Cera, Jessie Ford, and Paula England, "college women: seen as a “slut” if they have sex on a hookup, “bitch” or “prude” if they don't," Contexts, August 7, 2017

George W. Crane, "Marital Rating Scale - Husband's Chart"

George W. Crane, "Marital Rating Scale - Wife's Chart"

View this documentary:

The Makers: Women Who Make America, Part 1, Awakenings (57 minutes)

View this brief video:

Jimmy Carter, “Why I Believe the Mistreatment of Women is the Number One Human Rights Abuse,” TedTalk, May, 2015