This presentation is by a student in the University of Illinois Great Cities Institute Certificate of Nonprofit Management Program class on nonprofits and civic engagement. Tom Tresser is the instructor.
48-110 (Foundations of Social Life) - Lesson Objectives:
1. Define and describe social stratification;
2. Identify, define and give examples of the three most common social stratification systems;
3. Discuss the basic ideas of Marx's theory of class structure;
4. Discuss the basic ideas of Weber's class system;
5. Identify and discuss factors contributing to the gender wage gap;
6. Distinguish between absolute and relative poverty;
7. Define what is meant by 'feminization of poverty' and 'cycle of poverty';
8. Identify and discuss common stereotypes associated with poverty and homelessness;
9. Differentiate between types of social mobility;
10. Discuss the role of social class in crime, victimization, and criminal justice
Weil, 2011, Rise of Community Organizations, Citizen Engagement, and New Inst...Rick Weil
Civic engagement and disaster recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Citation: Weil, Frederick. 2011. “Rise of Community Organizations, Citizen Engagement, and New Institutions,” in Amy Liu, Roland V. Anglin, Richard Mizelle, and Allison Plyer, editors, Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, pp. 201-219. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
Keeping Up Appearances: Consumption and Masking Poverty - Kathy HamiltonOxfam GB
Dr Kathy Hamilton, from the University of Strathclyde, talks about the role of consumption in masking poverty.
The Whose Economy? seminars, organised by Oxfam Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland, brought together experts to look at recent changes in the Scottish economy and their impact on Scotland's most vulnerable communities.
Held over winter and spring 2010-11 in Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow and Stirling, the series posed the question of what economy is being created in Scotland and, specifically, for whom?
To find out more and view other Whose Economy? papers, presentations and videos visit:
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/ukpovertypost/whose-economy-seminar-series-winter-2010-spring-2011/
Why Anatha: Towards a New Economy of Abundance | Edward DeLeon Hickman Edward DeLeon Hickman
Edward DeLeon Hickman discusses how Anatha aims to move towards a new economy of abundance. To learn more about Anatha or Edward DeLeon Hickman, feel free to visit http://edwarddeleonhickman.com/
48-110 (Foundations of Social Life) - Lesson Objectives:
1. Define and describe social stratification;
2. Identify, define and give examples of the three most common social stratification systems;
3. Discuss the basic ideas of Marx's theory of class structure;
4. Discuss the basic ideas of Weber's class system;
5. Identify and discuss factors contributing to the gender wage gap;
6. Distinguish between absolute and relative poverty;
7. Define what is meant by 'feminization of poverty' and 'cycle of poverty';
8. Identify and discuss common stereotypes associated with poverty and homelessness;
9. Differentiate between types of social mobility;
10. Discuss the role of social class in crime, victimization, and criminal justice
Weil, 2011, Rise of Community Organizations, Citizen Engagement, and New Inst...Rick Weil
Civic engagement and disaster recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Citation: Weil, Frederick. 2011. “Rise of Community Organizations, Citizen Engagement, and New Institutions,” in Amy Liu, Roland V. Anglin, Richard Mizelle, and Allison Plyer, editors, Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, pp. 201-219. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
Keeping Up Appearances: Consumption and Masking Poverty - Kathy HamiltonOxfam GB
Dr Kathy Hamilton, from the University of Strathclyde, talks about the role of consumption in masking poverty.
The Whose Economy? seminars, organised by Oxfam Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland, brought together experts to look at recent changes in the Scottish economy and their impact on Scotland's most vulnerable communities.
Held over winter and spring 2010-11 in Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow and Stirling, the series posed the question of what economy is being created in Scotland and, specifically, for whom?
To find out more and view other Whose Economy? papers, presentations and videos visit:
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/ukpovertypost/whose-economy-seminar-series-winter-2010-spring-2011/
Why Anatha: Towards a New Economy of Abundance | Edward DeLeon Hickman Edward DeLeon Hickman
Edward DeLeon Hickman discusses how Anatha aims to move towards a new economy of abundance. To learn more about Anatha or Edward DeLeon Hickman, feel free to visit http://edwarddeleonhickman.com/
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American Poverty: The Dream Turned Nightmare
Broadly speaking, observers can consider two sources of poverty—either personal weaknesses that encourage its onset or circumstances outside individuals, families, or communities that promote or even determine being poor. Stereotypes are often linked to the first condition. A stereotype is a set of distinctly negative traits that prejudiced people apply to all members of a group against whom they are prejudiced. Stereo-types affect both oppressing and oppressed categories of individuals. The oppressing group often develops critical images of the poor and other oppressed groups, which are self-serving, endorsing a conviction of dominant people’s superiority and justifying the maintenance of the current economic, political, and social status quo. Further-more stereotypes can savagely erode disadvantaged people’s self-image and performance.
In Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. Vance wrote about his poor white family, particularly his grandparents, who moved from Kentucky to Ohio. Vance indicated that his grandparents’ middle-class neighbors viewed them suspiciously—“[t]hey had too many children, and they welcomed their extended families into their homes for too long” (2016, 31). Clearly to the neighbors the Vances and other Kentucky migrants were no more than marginally civilized, retaining traits from their rural roots, such as raising chickens in their back yard. When one of their friends from Kentucky engaged in this practice, local government officials complained. The officials and local neighbors found it particularly objectionable that
when his chicken population grew too large, he’d take a few of the old ones, wring their necks, and carve them up for meat right in his backyard. You can imagine a well-bred housewife watching out the window in horror as her Kentucky-born neighbor slaughtered chickens just a few feet away.
(VANCE 2016, 31–32)
The idea of stereotypes seems to suggest that the people who display their qualities are inferior, quite possibly deserving to remain so. Sociological analysis, however, emphasizes the role of outside circumstances, describing various conditions that put poor people at distinct disadvantage.
This chapter examines the history of American poverty, the official definition of poverty, contemporary living for poor Americans, and the enactment of welfare reform. In the upcoming section, it becomes apparent that poverty has always been a reality in American society.
A basic concept throughout the chapter is the cycle of poverty, which is a circular process in which a set of interrelating large structures, primarily institutions, lock individuals and families into a low-income condition. The concept is provocative because it analyzes poverty as a dynamic, interactive situation, and it also encourages speculations about attacking poverty—breaking the cycle. The reality that the concept describes unfolds in the following manne ...
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Stratification in Traditional and Modern Societies
Sociological Building Blocks of Stratification and Social Class
Class and Inequality in the United States: Dimensions and Trends
The Problem of Neighborhood Poverty
Why Do Stratification and Poverty Exist and Persist in Class Societies?
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1. How equal or unequal is the distribution of income in the United States? What factors help explain income inequality?
2. What explains the existence and persistence of widespread poverty in the United States, one of the richest countries on earth?
3. Should the minimum wage be raised? What would be the costs of such an increase? What would be the benefits?
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POVERTY AND PROSPERITY IN THE UNITED STATES
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An article in a recent issue of Bloomberg Markets that reported on a growing demand among investors for trailer park properties in the United States profiled one such investor:
When Dan Weissman worked at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and, later, at a hedge fund, he didn’t have to worry about methamphetamine addicts chasing his employees with metal pipes. Or SWAT teams barging into his workplace looking for arsonists.
Both things have happened since he left Wall Street and bought five mobile home parks: four in Texas and one in Indiana. Yet he says he’s never been so relaxed in his life....
[He] attributes his newfound calm to the supply-demand equation in the trailer park industry. With more of the U.S. middle class sliding into poverty and many towns banning new trailer parks, enterprising owners are getting rich renting the concrete pads and surrounding dirt on which residents park their homes.
“The greatest part of the business is that we go to sleep at night not ever worrying about demand for our product.... It’s the best decision I’ve ever made.” (Effinger & Burton, 2014)
The decline of the U.S. middle class has wrought substantial consequences for millions of families. It has also, as the Bloomberg article suggests, opened new opportunities for others, including members of the upper class. The economic position of the middle class, particularly its less educated fraction, has been slowly declining since the 1970s, a process accelerated by the economic recession of 2007–2010, the effects of which are still felt in many families and co.
The concept of citizenship tends to be seen as inclusive. Today, more and more emphasis is placed on education for citizenship and is a major part of the curriculum. However, different theories of citizenship conceive it in different ways. Different tiers of citizenship are created according to the extent to which a person is said to belong. In some states, citizenship is conferred according to birth (jus soli) whereas in others it is a question of inheritance (jus sanguinus). However, even if someone is nominally a full citizen, they can be excluded in different ways, for example, due to their sex, ethnicity, or class status. This week we will examine the concept of citizenship and look at who is included, and who is excluded by it. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which class and socioeconomic deprivation have an effect on the ability to be a full citizen by examining the role of education, the Welfare State, and political participation.
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i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 3Tom Tresser
This is Session 3 of "Civics 101" for Kansas City i c stars Cycle 2, delivered May 31, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser. Subscribe to Tom's "CivicNotes" email newsletter at http://tresser.substack.com.
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This is Session 2 of "Civics 101" for i c stars Kansas City Cycle 2, delivered May 24, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser, tom@tresser.com, www.tresser.com.
i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 1Tom Tresser
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This is the third of four sessions of "Civics 101" for i c stars Chicago Cycle 54, delivered March 21, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser, tom@tresser.com, www.tresser.com.
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The "We Say No Games" Fight Song from 2009Tom Tresser
These are the lyrics for a fun fight song "We Say No Games!" that was produced by Charles Josepth Smith (https://www.facebook.com/musicandalotmore) for the No Games Chicago campaign back in 2009.
Simple URL for this presentation = www.tinyurl.com/NGC-Fight-Song-lyrics
No Games Chicago organizer Tom Tresser (www.tresser.com) gave this presentation on their campaign from 2009 at the 2024 conference of the Academy of Leisure Sciences in New Orleans, Janaury 31, 2024. https://www.2024talsconference.com/keynotes - NGC = www.nogameschicago.com. Reach Tom at tom@tresser.com.
The simple URL for this presentation = www.tinyurl.com/TALS-NGC-Intro
No Boston Olympics organizer Claire Blechman gave this presentation on their campaign from 2015 at the 2024 conference of the Academy of Leisure Sciences in New Orleans, Janaury 31, 2024. https://www.2024talsconference.com/keynotes - NBO = https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069312185401
The simple URL for this presentation = https://www.tinyurl.com/TALS-NBO-Intro
This is Class #2 from "Civics 101" for i c stars Kansas City Cycle 1 from November 17, 2023. We focused on empathy and Civic Brain. The instructor is Tom Tresser - www.tresser.com.
This is Class #1 of "Civics 101" for i c stars Kansas City, offered November 10, 2023. Tom Tresser is the instructor - tom@tresser.com, www.tresser.com.
This community forum on TIFs and the proposed TIF to susbsidize the re-location of the Hollywood Casino was held in Aurora on November 4, 2023. The forum was presented by Working Families Aurora (www.facebook.com/wfaurora) and Alderman John Laesch (www.johnforaurora.com). Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project (www.tifreports.com) went over the basics of TIFs and revealed - for the first time - the full impact of the TIFs of Kane County and Aurora. Stop the casino TIF! Sign the petition at https://l.ead.me/NoCasinoTIF. Reach the CivicLab and the TIF Illumination Project at info@civiclab.us.
The simple URL for this presentation = www.tinyurl.com/TIF-Meeting-11-4-23
2. Definition
In my communities
Root causes
Analysis
What I can do?
3. My definition:
No matter what
the situation, it
is one of the Condition where
most visible
forms of people live in
poverty and it shelters designed
exists
everywhere in for the homeless or
the world! any unconventional
living situation or
places unintended
for dwellings.
Defining "homelessness" is
Often countries do a complex and difficult
not allow their adult thing to do. (click to see
homeless population UN, ETHOS, and HUD
to vote. definitions)
4. Why does this issue persists?
How can we cure this matter that continues to
affect hundreds of thousands of people?
5. I’ll phone Skokie’s Human Services
Division responsible for housing
resources on Monday to learn more!
located 16 miles from Chicago (residents’ feedback)
“provides high-quality government services to
the over 64,000 residents” and “the
opportunity to join together in building a
stronger more caring community.” Skokie website
celebrates multi-culturalism Ask about official
(Festival of Cultures… what about those housing programs,
stats about homeless,
marginalized immigrants lacking a social network?)
non-existence of
unofficially, 3 homeless persons shelters, clean-up of
McCormick bridges,
no homeless shelter etc.
(the most appalling story – students raise funds for substitute teacher
whose wages are not enough for shelter then withdraw help… why?)
6. For a variety of reasons; primarily an
economic problem; affected by social and
political factors… (click to read more)
includes people from all walks of life
more than 3.5 million people each year
35% are families with children
(the fastest growing segment) 25% are under
23% are U.S. military 18 years old
homelessness exploded
veterans in the 80s when federal
“Nickel and Dimed” provides funds were withdrawn
a self-study on the experience from low-income
of the working poor housing and social
assistance programs for
low-income families
30% experienced domestic violence and the mentally ill
(currently less than 50%
20-25% suffer from mental illness of 1976 spending levels)
7. Watch this
„Gibt es echte Obdachlosigkeit in Deutschland?“
(= Are there really any homeless in Germany?) Yes!
Although Germany has a strong social safety
read about the net, approx. 248,000 are homeless
vicious cycle (incl. homeless immigrants every 2nd homeless
European lives in Germany)
officially they do not exist.
their # isn’t registered in governmental stats
independent institutions offering social
services e.g. BAG provide estimates
8. difficult to determine how many homeless
people there are in the world
countries have different legal definitions
Complicated by natural disasters, civil unrest
U.N. estimates 100 million
(Not including those who lived in semi-permanent places e.g.
abandoned buildings, tents, vehicles, hastily put together
shelters, or the “hidden homeless” who bounce from shelter to
shelter or from friend’s house to friend’s house)
(Click to read more)
(World Habitat Day)
9. Click to read more
lack of affordable
inadequate education housing, health
divorce
care, and safe
child care
drugs
high cost of living, low-wage jobs, and high
unemployment rates force people to choose
between food, housing, and other expenses
structurally perpetuated
10. the public has many
different ways to view
homelessness and how it
affects individuals,
economies, societies
fact: it’s a worldwide
problem
Sociologists look at it in
different ways
11. a concept of classification of people into
groups based on shared socio-economic
conditions
a relational set of inequalities with economic,
social, political and ideological dimensions
differences lead to greater status, power or
privilege for some groups over the other
a system by which society ranks categories of
people in a hierarchy
Click to
read more
based on four basic principles:
a) trait of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences;
b) carries over from generation to generation;
c) universal but variable;
d) involves inequality and beliefs
12. social stratification exists in most societies
a hierarchy is beneficial in stabilizing their
existence
Talcott Parsons: stability and social order are
achieved by means of a universal value
consensus
functionalists indicate that stratification exists
solely to satisfy the functional prerequisites
necessary for a functional proficiency in any
society
13. inaccessibility of resources and lack of social mobility
Karl Marx: distinguished social classes by their
connection to the means of production; stratification
means that working class people are not likely to advance
socioeconomically, while the wealthy may continue to
exploit the proletariat generation after generation; the
bourgeoisie/ruling class and proletarians/working class
maintain their social positions by maintaining their
relationship with the means of production; maintenance of
system is achieved by methods of social control e.g.
ideologies
Max Weber: social stratification is not based purely upon
economic inequalities, but also equally on status and
power differentials; presence of four social classes: the
propertied upper class, the property-less white-collar
workers, the petty bourgeoisie, and the working class
14. Max Weber’s theory of social action
Emil Durkheim’s collective consciousness
the homeless population is ostracized from
higher socio-economic groups because of
actual exchanges that occur between them
and those in other economic classes
Example: discouraging, offending,
stigmatizing, or stereotyping a homeless
person as substance abuser and employers’
reluctance to hire individuals who do not
possess a physical address. It dissuades
some homeless people from seeking out
employment.
15. There are countless ways to help the homeless,
both directly and indirectly without spending any
money.
1. Understand who the homeless are
Watch a clip about 2. Respond with kindness
poverty in Chicago 3. Respect the homeless as individuals
4. Bring food
5. Give recyclables
6. Donate clothing and toys
7.Volunteer at a shelter, battered women’s shelter,
or your professional services
8.Tutor and mentor homeless children
9. Play with children in a shelter
9.Teach about the homeless
10. Educate your children about the homeless