Transcript Sociology 1201: Week Six • Exam results: 55-103 Median: 83

Sociology 1201: Week Six
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Exam results: 55-103
Median: 83
Exams: what you can do if your exam results
were disappointing
1. Come to my office during office hours (MWF, 11-12,
to go over the questions you missed and ask me
about them if you don’t see why you were wrong
2. Extra credit
3. Read and mark text; attend class; review.
Sociology 1201
Preliminary Course Evaluation
• How is this course working for you after 12
weeks?
• Are there changes you’d like to suggest?
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Annette Lareau: Unequal
Childhoods
• Research basis: Intensive observation of
12 families, half black and half white, each
racial category also divided by social
class. All had a child in third grade (I will
talk about ppendix A pm research
methodology om detail)
• Lareau and her research assistants: about
20 hours per family… “Treat us like the
family dog.”
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Preview of the book’s argument in
chapter one
• Different styles of childrearing by social
class that convey important advantages as
children grow up and compete for place in
a highly stratified society (building on work
of Pierre Bourdieu—see appendix B)
– “Concerted Cultivation” pp 1-2
– “Natural growth” p. 3
– Which is the better way? How were you
raised?
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An important detour into social
class: income fifths
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$20,000 and below
$40,000
$60,000
$80,000
$110,000
bottom fifth
second fifth
third fifth
fourth fifth
Education: about 30% of your generation
achieving 4-year college degrees
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Video: “Main Street”
• Jefferson, Wisconsin, in 2004, during a
period of rapid economic growth nationally
• What are the forces shaping the job
structure of the United States?
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