reward structures that lead to suboptimal outcomes by stimulating counterproductive behavior
What are perverse incentives
100
the process by which problems or issues not traditionally seen as medical come to be framed and understood as such.
What is medicalization
100
driving students into different classes according to ability or future plan
What is tracking
100
serves to form a more cohesive society but has also been used to impose the values of a dominant culture on outsiders or minorities
example: teaching soft skills
What is hidden curriculum
100
Researcher whose study moved several thousand families out of a low income neighbhorood into a wealthier one and found that the children in the new neighborhood were doing better in terms of employment and other factors
Who is Rosenbaum
200
point at which a household’s income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members
What is Absolute Poverty
200
State sponsored licensing and organized authority that determine membership in the medical field
What is the American Medical Association
200
"jobs require certain cognitive skills and schooling helps produce these skills" is an example of...
What is human capital theory
200
the idea that poor people adopt certain practices that differ from those of middle-class, mainstream society in order to adapt and survive in difficult economic circumstances
What is culture of poverty
200
This report suggests that school resources just didn’t matter; student achievement was mostly about personal influence and parental characteristics
What is Coleman
300
measurement of poverty based on a percentage of the median income in a given location
What is relative poverty
300
Many sociologists would argue that doctors' status and pay is mainly because of
What is professional closure?
300
sees skills learned in school as essentially arbitrary – they are valuable because they help those in power to reproduce their privilege
What is cultural capital
300
when small differences become magnified over time
What is cumulative disadvantage?
300
estimates food cots for mimunum food requimrents to determine whether a family can “afford” to surivie
What is Mollie Orshansky's poverty line
400
essentialist idea that poor people are poor because they are not intelligent and therefore not smart enough to figure out how to take care of their kids and be functional in society –
What is Bell Curve Thesis
400
An example from class of how illness is a social construct that varies across cultures
What is Hmong culture and epilepsy?
or
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
400
This type of cultural capital refers to legitimate credentials that create distinction
What is institutionalized cultural capital
400
measurement used to compare poverty levels across countries
What is purchasing power parity (PPP)
400
Researcher whose book, What Money Can’t Buy, showed that the effects of income poverty on children have been vastly overstated
Who is Susan Mayer
500
The stress of poverty causes parents to engage in negative practices like hitting and yelling which hurt the child’s development
What is parenting stress hypothesis
500
states that social status can determine a person’s health
What is social determinants theory
500
the process that occurs when behavior is modified to meet preexisting expectations
Example: experiments show that randomly telling teachers that some kids are higher ability creates differences in performance
What is the Pygmalion effect
500
The view of poverty that says it is there because it supports the capitalist system
What is a structural view of poverty?
500
Authors of the books that discussed the lads and the earholes
and the hallway hangers and the brothers.