Thursday, May 19, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Week 10: Post your Blog Entries as Comments to my Main Post Each Week
Post by Sunday at midnight.
Untouchable? - India
22 min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JkfYcxiQ8
As we finish looking at global stratification with the Bottom Billion conception, then we look at national levels of stratification and mechanisms of social reproduction or social mobility within them.
State policies, civil society, and institutional varieties can attempts to remove (or at least alter) the frameworks of stratification: here we have [1] education and [2] the welfare state frameworks and their institutional and policy differences worldwide. This is both Sernau and Esping-Andersen (The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). I hope to get to that next week.
To prepare for class this next week, look over Sernau Chapters 9,10,11. There is a mistake in the syllabus the section on "Advanced Poverty Programs" is in Chapter 11 (not in Chapter 10 as the syllabus says).
Untouchable? - India
22 min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JkfYcxiQ8
A good film discussing the poverty trap in India: the dalits. We will soon start to think about the environmental inequalities, and family inequalities, and inter-generational poverty and inequalities. The dalits will serve as a good example, because it is so extreme. We move from global situations of stratification, back to state and cultural based stratification. How does a state's politics maintain inequalities or seek to demote them? On the one hand, there is the maintenance of inequalities by state politics: 200 million people in India want to get out of the dalit/untouchable caste situation, though few have any institutional means to do so. And even under a democratic system, upper castes run the country and have repressively demoted any self-organized dalit parties (death and violence shown in the later minutes of the film, so watch it with my warnings.)
As we finish looking at global stratification with the Bottom Billion conception, then we look at national levels of stratification and mechanisms of social reproduction or social mobility within them.
State policies, civil society, and institutional varieties can attempts to remove (or at least alter) the frameworks of stratification: here we have [1] education and [2] the welfare state frameworks and their institutional and policy differences worldwide. This is both Sernau and Esping-Andersen (The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). I hope to get to that next week.
To prepare for class this next week, look over Sernau Chapters 9,10,11. There is a mistake in the syllabus the section on "Advanced Poverty Programs" is in Chapter 11 (not in Chapter 10 as the syllabus says).
Friday, May 6, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Week 7: No blog posting during mid-term week
No blog posting during mid-term week. No class sessions either. See syllabus.
The extra credit exam will be uploaded to the Kookmin website this weekend. It is due next time we meet. Print a copy of your answers and bring it to class, after mid-term week.
The extra credit exam will be uploaded to the Kookmin website this weekend. It is due next time we meet. Print a copy of your answers and bring it to class, after mid-term week.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
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