Module 9
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race concentrates on physical character traits passed down from ancestors; ethnicity concentrates on cultural traits passed down from ancestors.
Identify 3 expenses related to poverty (i.e. "the poverty tax").
Answers will vary: lost wages due to unreliable transportation, check cashing fees, bounced check fees, higher interest rates and/or predatory loans, goods markup, excessive security deposits for utilities or low-income housing
This person is considered the foremost scholar on intersectionality.
Kimberle Crenshaw
George Ritzer is credited with codifying this theory, which has four principles.
McDonaldization
A movement that researches and applies new technologies in order to transcend human biology is known as this.
transhumanism
Why do some DNA kits identify Native American ancestry as Asian ancestry?
Early Native Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia and share common phenotypes with Asian peoples.
The quality of public education within a community is largely owed to this.
property taxes or wealth of tax base
This theory was formed to address the concern that reason alone does not always dictate just outcomes under the law.
Intersectionality
When workers are employed for fewer hours than they need or want, or when they are employed in a job below their skill level, it's called this.
Underemployment
What is one positive and one negative example of transhumanism?
Short response (1 paragraph).
The Gullah Geechee are descendants of whom?
Enslaved African people in the American South who shared land, folkways and language after the Civil War.
"[A] high degree of disparity in income, wealth, power, prestige, and other resources" is Eglitis and Chambliss' definition of this phenomenon.
social stratification
Apply the principles of metaphysics, epistemology, or ethics to the way you see yourself.
Short response (1-2 paragraphs) review Mod 11 Intro to Philosophy reading.
According to Eglitis and Chambliss, this new technology could end up costing workers a large amount of jobs in the coming years.
Automation
Based on your assigned reading, Francis Fukuyama's primary concern about the pursuit of transhumanism is this.
equality, or that the rich will be the only ones able to access new technologies
What does endogamous mean?
That people only marry those within their immediate community, tribe, or cultural group.
A monthly stipend paid to all citizens regardless of occupation or assets is called this.
Universal Basic Income
An identity that needs to be disclosed is considered what, according to the waterline of visibility?
Invisible.
These are the four principles of McDonaldization.
predictability, calculability, control, efficiency
Critics of hypermodernism, including Wegierski, are most concerned about this foundation of society being sacrificed for technological advancements.
personal relationships