class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # SOC 2220 Discussion Section ## Week 8 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2020-10-22 --- # Announcements - Quiz starting from 3pm Friday - Event write-ups: lots of material has been covered in class and there are quite a few recorded webinars available so you should be thinking about your event write-ups. --- # Concept review How does poverty differ between different locales (i.e. rural, urban, suburban)? -- - Rural:Experienced at high rates among workers; Highly concentrated among spatially-isolated minorities and immigrants; Linked to rural family change; Inadequately addressed by today’s urban-oriented public safety net - Suburban: Rising rapidly; Driven by changing economic conditions and labor markets of metropolitan areas How is wealth defined? -- - Assets of worth (aka the things we own). Homes, savings, stocks, bonds, investments, real estate, businesses, vehicles (cars, boats, airplanes) etc. Sum of assets minus the sum of debts --- # How Your Area Compares - Give the students the following [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=1](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=1) Questions to discuss within your group: - How do you believe the county you grew up in compares to other counties in regards to the mobility chances of poor families? - Does your perception of your county differs from what the NYT article says? - What are some of the reasons your county is ranked where it is for income mobility? - Has your life/career trajectory been affected by where you grow up so far? Does it differ from a majority of your high school classmates? - Thinking about the Hagerman reading (Intro & Chapter 1 in *White Kids*): how do people's perceptions of locations and choices to live in certain places effect the processes seen above? --- # Activity 2: Thought Experiment Questions: Pretend you are graduating from Cornell and are seeking a job at an elite firm on the west coast. - Using evidence from the Rivera reading and knowledge of your own credentials, explain how you believe you would do in the first and second rounds of the hiring process. - How would this change if you were applying to an elite firm in the Northeast? - How would this change if you were going to an average ranked state school?