Housekeeping. Urban Underclass

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1 Housekeeping Remaining TUES: Global Inequality THURS: Social Change No reading, I ll pull key points from chapter. Study guide to be posted this pm Office hours will send by Segregation perpetuates underclass: link Industrial restructuring Remember: Chapter 5 Social Structure and Interaction? Lenski: preindustrial, postindustrial, postmodern Postindustrial: rise of service sector, decline in mechanized production Think about it spatially Urban Underclass Concentration of poverty & joblessness Industrial restructuring Social disorganization Long term poor lack skills, access to training, mentoring, opportunities 1

2 Inner city decline But not everyone can move Concentrations of poverty Social isolation Mentors? Role models? Freedom Writers Diary? Inner city decline But not everyone can move Concentrations of poverty Social isolation Mentors? Role models? Freedom Writers Diary? Often invisible. Explanations of poverty economic: for ex, work disappears (underclass?) political: for ex, welfare inadequate cultural: for ex, lack work ethic Each has very different policy implications Systems of Stratification slavery: legalized social inequality involuntary or indentured servitude Modern day version very much alive. 2

3 Human trafficking Often invisible. 3

4 Social movement (p393) Organized collective activity to bring about, or resist, fundamental change Systems of Stratification slavery castes: hereditary, fixed estate: land ownership class: open? The World As A Village: here Note which characteristics particularly strike you? 4

5 Life Chances : opportunities people have to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions and favorable life experiences. 90% of the population in the Ranquitte area of Haiti have no access to a flush toilet at home. One solution to this shortage is the Arborloo, a system for making the most of human waste. A hole is dug, and a toilet and shelter are put over the hole. People use it for a few months, adding leaves and other compostables until the hole is about 10 inches from ful At that point a tree is planted in the hole and the waste is covered with soil (Long 2006) Fig. 8-1, p

6 Processes? Step back historically. Top down, macro perspective (p268) Political economic systems (p265) Start with the industrial revolution Brought increased agric & economic activity, explosive growth Globally, IR and growth unevenly distributed Resulted in global social structure Key Sociologically: Processes? Implications? Witt at start: consequences of difference Remember? 6

7 World System Theory Version of dependency theory How did Global Divide develop? Modernization: far reaching process, societies move from traditional forms of social organization toward forms characteristic of post IR societies Many social changes Development: process by which cultures move from primitive to more advanced. But how? Modernization (p269): far reaching process, societies move from traditional forms of social organization toward forms characteristic of post IR societies Many social changes Complex DoL Decline of local orientation Rise of rational decision making Spread of cultural diversity, social exhange Modernization and development sped up through worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social mvmts, and financial mkts through trade and the exchange of ideas 7

8 modernization and development sometimes charged with ethnocentric bias See why? Talk to neighbors. ethnocentrism : tendency to assume one s own culture and way of life represent what s normal or are superior to others (p65) OK, we ve got development and modernization, now back to thinking about WHY the global divide 8