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Exam Review 4

12 November 2015

  1. What were the main points in the “Wealth Inequality” video? (At least three)
  1. How does class and race relate to each other? What would these two social locations look like geographically?
  1. What started residential segregation? (describe using terms like “de jure” and “de facto”).
  1. Which graph shows how race is today compared to the past.

(Y axis (vertical) = tolerance of different races)

(X axis (horizontal) = increases to the right with years)

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  1. How is racism reinforced today? (Give examples)
  1. How does Residential Segregation affect schools?
  1. How do social factors play into residential segregation? (Clue: think about the ideology of parents about their children)
  1. Is race biological? What is gender?
  1. What is Neo-liberalism and how has it failed in regards to race and gender?
  1. What are the three ways people legitimize inhuman treatment of Others? Give an example of each one.
  1. Who bears the negative consequences of race and racism? Give an example.
  1. What is the “matrix of hatred”? How does this hatred affect the classes?
  1. Fill out this chart with the characteristics of R vs D ideals in 1970s and their ideals now. What happened in 1960-70s to cause the different ideals?

1960 and Before / What happened here? / Now
Republican / Republican
Democratic / Democratic
  1. What is the birth replacement rate? What does that tell us about Traditional times versus now?
  1. At what time do birth rates fall in comparison to death rates?
  2. At same time
  3. Death rates decrease first; birth rates follow at slower pace
  4. Death rates decrease last; birth rates fall first
  1. What are the fallback plans for when egalitarian relationship fails:
  2. For women?
  1. For men?
  1. What is the second shift? Who does it apply to?
  1. Compare gender from 1970s to now.
  1. Which of the four social codings disappeared from American Politics? Why?
  1. What are the features of a weak democracy?
  1. Which one of these is the worst type of governmental system? Why?
  2. One party system
  3. Parliamentary (with proportional representation)
  4. Two party monopoly system

Parliamentary / American “Democracy”
  1. Compare the Parliamentary system to American’s “Democracy”?
  1. What happens to third party votes?
  1. What is rational ignorance?
  1. What is a democracy and how does this counteract what we have today?
  1. Compare and Contrast Republicans and Democrats and the four different groups that exist within both.
  1. Label each quadrant and side of the below graph according to the Pol compass.
  1. Describe the three forms of political domination according to Max Weber.
  1. Describe the three kinds of modern political economies.
  1. What is a mandate and what are 8 reasons why we have no mandates today?

Mandate:

  1. Describe the process of the Estates General.