class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # SOC 2220 Discussion Section ## Week 2 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2020-09-11 --- class: middle, center # Aboue me Xuewen (Shue Wn) Yan Snow literature Email: xy364@cornell.edu Call or text: +16072621422 My hobbies: do you want to hear them?... --- # Housekeeping: Communication Section-related communication - **All** through "Announcements" (check your [Canvas notification setting](https://canvas.cornell.edu/profile/communication)) - **All** announcements start with "SOC2220 Section" (easy for you to search) -- Section slides - Available on Rpubs right before section - [https://rpubs.com/xwueyan](https://rpubs.com/xwueyan) -- Come to zoom office hours! - Tuesdays: 2:50 - 4:50 pm - Book online, **NO** need to email me! [https://xuewenyan.youcanbook.me](https://xuewenyan.youcanbook.me) - Another time? Time zone concerns? --- # Housekeeping: Grading & Assignments Attendance and participation - 2 unexcused absence; **NO** need to email me! - Email me if you need a 3rd or more absences and explain your reasons. -- Event writeups - As long as it's university sponsored - As long as it's related to inequality - Use your judgement; **NO** need to email me for my approval of the event's suitability! -- Assignment notes - Quizzes: Only covers the specific week - Lecture video: **NOT** available once the quiz starts - Lecture slides: Always available --- # How to best participate in virtual sections - Have your camera on + Don't multitask, even if it feels tempting to do so! - Have the readings/lecture slides handy! - Unmute yourself and ask questions anytime - Ensure access to discussion questions + Access section slides online + use chat copy/paste + Take a screenshot before breakout room assignments - Be ready to screenshare google doc's/reading content --- class: inverse, middle, center # Questions? --- # Section format - [Section Survey Results!](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r_jw1iI7c5BBzHtMBfsHT2YxpDA8kltd4XMiO-t57Ow/edit) -- - Tentative: + Concept review + reading discussion + activities + Larger (4 - 6 person) breakout rooms --- # Concept Review (10 min breakout room discussion): 1. Definition: Social stratification 1. Functionalist perspective (Davis and Moore 1945) vs Conflict theory (Tumin 1953) of inequality 2. Poverty measure: Official, relative, extreme + Additional question: Why is the official measure criticized? 3. Social class: Subjective, reputational, objective --- # Criticisms of the official measure of poverty The official measure - Does not account for noncash government benefits, taxes, medical out-of-pocket (MOOP) expenses, and work expenses. - Is based on food alone, and uses very old data about food (although it does account for inflation over the years) - Does not adjust for geographic differences in the cost of living, - Has a narrow definition of family [Source](https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v75n3/v75n3p55.html#:~:text=SPM%20%3D%20Supplemental%20Poverty%20Measure.,than%2050%20percent%20of%20threshold.&text=Compared%20with%20the%20official%20measure,aged%20(65%20or%20older) --- # Reading discussion 2: Kraus, Park and Tan 2017 Find the explanation/examples for these terms - Signals of social class status: Body, voice, culture **(Breakout rooms: 1,2)** - Use of those signals: Sorting, stereotyping, class conflict **(Breakout rooms: 3,4)** - Outcomes: Dehumanization, strategic sharing, justifying ideology **(Breakout rooms: 5,6)** Discuss any of the following: 1. Is the study of signs of class useful in your opinion, why? 2. Did you find any facts/ideas from this article particularly striking or interesting? 3. Can you think of personal experiences of the signaling of social class? Has the article changed the way you think about such experiences? --- # Ice-breaker before you go - Take a screen shot of your faces in the breakout rooms! - Attach your name, class, and major! - Email the screenshot to me!