What is Social Inequality?

What is Social Inequality?
How does Social Inequality Shape
Us?
What is structural functionalist
theory and what is conflict theory?
What is meant by social
inequality?
What are some of the major issues
of social inequality and how does
social inequality affect you?
When we use the term class, what
do we mean?
If we use the term fluid class
structure, what are we saying?
How does technological change,
change inequality?
Define middle class and think
about why it is shrinking and the
relationship between that and the
fact that the rich are getting richer.

What is meant by gender and what
is meant by sex?
Is being gay normal?
Is a person born gay or does he or
she choose or is this life style a
combination of both?
Should gay couples be allowed to
adopt children?
Why do people hide being gay?
What leads gay people to commit
suicide?
How does globalization affect the
gay and lesbian community?

What is gender prejudice and how
does it affect inequality?
How has the status of women
changed in the last 200 years?
Discuss the income disparity
between men and women.
What is the relationship between
professions and gender and how is
this relationship changing?
What is sexual harassment and
how does it affect women
disproportionally to men?
Why have women discriminated
against both in the past and in the
present, and why is this beginning
to change?
What is the relationship between
capitalism, Patriarchy and sex
inequality?
Discuss Engels theory of sexual
inequality.
What do we mean by surplus value
and how does surplus value affect
both women and the poor?
Define a feminist and discuss
feminist theory as it concerns
inequality.
What do you think about honor
killings?

Define race and try to differentiate
race from ethnicity.
How has race and racism change in
America over the last hundred and
fifty years?
Do we still live in a segregated
society and if so, how does this
segregation affect both whites and
non-whites?
How does race define economic
status in America?
Is being black or Hispanic a crime
in the United States?
How is racism similar to gender
prejudice and how is it different?
Discuss the relationship between
race and class in the United States.
Does racism help those who stay in
power, stay in power?
How does class with in a racial
group affect status?
Define caste.
How does racism affect the rest of
the world?
How would a conflict theorist
understand race and racism and
how would a structural
functionalist understand race and
racism?
What is the relationship between
violence in the family and
poverty?
Discuss why the poor are more
likely to commit street crime than
the middle class or the rich and
why they usually commit crimes in
their own neighborhoods?
What are the relationships between
education and crime?
Why is crime often viewed as the
only avenue to survive and or for
upward mobility among some the
poor?
Define Ghetto.
Discuss life in the ghetto and how
it reflects inequality in society and
reinforces inequality.
What is the difference between
white collar crime and blue collar
crime?
What is a hate crime and is all
violent crime hat crime

How do social movements develop
and what is the definition of a
social movement?
Discuss the labor movement.
What does the term welfare
capitalism mean?
What issues divide labor