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Katz: Pissed Off in LA

Kligman: Romania abortion
Timmermans: Social death
Zeitlin: Factories and women's rights
Zeitlin: Death in Vietnam
Zhou: Asian Americans
Hunt: OJ Simpson Case
Saguy: Sexual harassment in France vs. US
Hunt Both race and class
Case seen as bringing up accusation of racism amongst Black group who may have seen this
1) an opportunity for Whites to suppress Blacks
Issue of how position in society or race affect the consequences of entering the justice system.
Kligman Race, Class, Gender
Race: Gypsy children high in demand because in America, they are considered White but in
Romania, they are considered outsider.
Class: Children sold for money so generally lower class families were involved in selling their children
to people with money
Gender: Women's bodies glorified to make babies before and after Ceausescu's Regime.
Relationship between two facts leading to a guess, posed as a question
Implicit general idea about facts. Use these ideas to relate two separate facts.
Theory(General): Explicit statement of tentative generalization of how one fact is related to another.
Hypothesis(Specific)
Hidden generalization to a specific one
Soldiers from small town more likely to get attacked than soldiers from metropolitan areas because the
former are more likely to join the army than the latter.
Alleged guessed explanation to explain two sets of facts.
Timmerman uses example of homeless man suffering from hypothermia. Goes from this particular
situation to a generalization of patients with interesting medical conditions. Connects interest in patient
to social viability to explain how doctors provided him with special treatment.
The central problem of social stratification research
Characteristics of parents & offspring, intergenerational class mobility.
By showing who gets ahead in society and benefits to children of their parents' social-economic

position.
Final 3 sections
1 and 2: are the 4 question and fill in the blank/ true or false
3: essay questions, connecting different ideas of the articles
Name an author and article and the method. How would you have conducted the study?
What are 3 examples of social inequality?
Gail Kligman Abortion and International Adoption in Post-Ceausescu Romania
Women's control over their bodies vs. Patriarchal society
Stefan Timmermans and David Sundow Social Death as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Higher likeliness of survival due to the attention given to patients of higher social value
determined by those who are responsible for their resuscitation
Robert Cushing and Bill Bishop The Rural War, The New York Times Death Rates by Country
Population, Baker Poor Areas Bear the Burden of Causalities in Iraq
Higher death rate of soldiers coming from poorer areas because of their likeliness to enlist
into war due to their need for money and opportunity

Cushing, Baker -The Rural War

Question: Does a link between one's class background and their chances of life on a battleground exist?
Rationale: There may be an application of social laws determining and governing our lives.
Method: Pentagon and census data. Chart showing the Iraqi war death rates for every 100,000 people
ages 18-54 by the size of their county's population
Theoretical statement: Military studies consistently find that a poor economy is a boon to recruiting.
The higher rate of deaths from rural counties likely reflects sparse opportunities for young people in
those places.

Katz -Pissed Off In LA

Question: How do people's self-perception affect the manner at which they are pissed off while
driving? What causes this anger and how do they justify or cope with it?
What causes the emergence of anger in drivers and why is this anger so extreme?
Rationale: There may be a pattern to which people respond to their urban environments because of
some similarity in their experiences getting pissed off
This will hopefully shed some light on the emergence and decline of the emotion of anger.
Method: 150 detailed reports in which people, mostly thirty years of age or older, were asked by an
equal number of college student interviewers to recount one or more experiences of becoming pissed
off while driving around Los Angeles.
He obtained stories from interviews, grouped similar situations and experiences, and used

induction to generalize from this.

Theoretical statement: The metamorphosis of driver and vehicle, the double resonance that is
experienced by the driver and the systematic incapacity that asymmetrically dumbs all drivers cause
people in A to be pissed of while driving.

Timmermans Social Death as Self-Fulfilling

Prophecy
Question: How have legal actions taken to resolve issues brought up by Sudnow been effective in
equalizing the attitudes towards patients of varying social values
he said it was: How does social inequality in society influence circumstances surrounding death
and dying, even when there are more legalities to combat this now?
Rationale: Timmermans attempts to figure out how changes to protocol in resuscitation have also
changed hospital workers' sentiments towards patients and if it had resolved the prejudices apparent in
their treatments.
he said: This concerns all of us. Also, what was the effectiveness of these instituted protocols in
factoring out social inequality?
Method: 112 observations of resuscitation efforts over a 14-month period in the emergency rooms of
two midwestern hospitals.
Theoretical statement: Social value affects the fervor in the staff's engagement of resuscitation efforts.
Protocols and legal actions taken to weaken social inequalities in death have actually enhanced it.
Hospital staff take the protocol and pre-given directives to justify their prejudices. They use protocols
to justify stopping effort on patients judged as having a lower social value. Because protocols must
legally be gone through, legal death becomes the endpoint.

Kligman -Abortion and International Adoption in

Post-Ceausescu Romania
Question: How did the fall of Ceausescu's regime affect women, in particular regarding the issues of
abortion? Have the reproductive rights of women changed fundamentally? Has Romanian society
become too differentiated by class, now forcing women to reproduce for the international market?
Have the reproductive rights of women changed fundamentally due to the legalization of abortion
and the new adoption policies in Romania?
Rationale: Kligman wants to explore whether or not changes have actually occurred in women's
independence with the coming of a new regime.
and this is inhumane
Method: Interviews, person anecdote and experience
Not a lot of strong census data or statistics. Many are assumptions(e.g. People adopting
Romanian babies because they are White.)

Theoretical Statement: Although abortion has become legalized, there is still a very prominent
dominant patriarchal force in women's lives. Their reproductive rights only go as far as the letters on a
legal document; however, their decisions as to what they do with their children are still in the hands of
others. Reproducing for the government's prosperity has changed to reproducing for household
financials.

Zeitlin - Pin Money and Pink Slips

Question: What political system (radicality and level of democracy) was most successful and
aggressive in gaining women's employment rights? To what extent did the political system within CIO
unions(regarding political ideology and structure) affect the effectiveness and aggressiveness in
achieving women's employment rights?
Rationale: Zeitlin wants to observe the effectiveness of political consciousness vs. political structure in
achieving progressive human rights for oppressed populations in general after observing the process by
which these factors affected women.
where did you come up with this?
Method: Taking separate industries and observing dependent variables upon isolating independent
variables within each industry. Then observing when two variables are combined.
Theoretical Statement: Positive likeliness between radicalness and democracy with the effectiveness of
achieving these women's rights.

Hunt - Reality, Negotiation, and the Trial of

the Century
How two groups differed in the arrival of their conclusions regarding the O.J. Simpson trial
Question: To what extent did the different social realities/experiences of Black and White
Americans shape the process by which they found meaning in the trial?
Rationale: Big media event that had the potential to mold the public agenda and reshape contours of
social realities concerning race in the United States.
To what extend did the media in this instance shape or serve the idealogy of naturalizing racial
differences?
Method: Comparative study within a case study
Theoretical Statement: There are raced ways of seeing from different experiences in existing society.
Both groups arrived at virtual agreement on extremes of the scales before discussions.
White group Simpson is guilty, Black group suspicious of prosecution's case
In W group, consideration of racial relevancy was ridiculed whereas in B group, race was an
important issue, perhaps as a reflection of their own experiences of feeling victimized.
B group develop less and less trust as the trial goes on, opposite for W group

Zhou - Are Asian Americans becoming White?

Question: What are the consequences for the American myth of social equality, rapid social mobility,
classlessness, ideology of superiority of one race over another, of modeling Asians as a minority?
How are the dominant conceptions of race or ideology of racial equality buttressed and reinforced by
the class situation of the so-called races?
I just combined theseHow are the dominant conceptions of race and the American ideology of
potential racial equality reinforced by the modeling of Asian-Americans as a minority?
Method: Interviews, census data. Many empirical statements made are not entirely backed up.
Rationale: AA have been classified alongside Whites with European origins for equal opportunity
programs. Race and class are intertwined.
I dont really know for this oneI just said this concerns the U.S. as a whole so it should concern
everyone.
Argument: White is an arbitrary label having more to do with privilege than biology. Model
minority buttresses myth of equal races, becoming problematic within Asian Americans as well as
outside .
Disregard the stratification within the Asian American population by assuming that because they are
considered a model minority and able to succeed on their own, other races are expected to do the same
despite the background they come from.
Success of Asian-Americans seen as having been achieved without any assistance. Idea that those who
lag behind do so because of their own ability poor choices in life.
Asians left their country, not as an oppressed group, but as middle and upper class, with their money in
tact ready to settle.
Very large population of Asian immigrants.When the restrictions on nationalities was restricted, another
restriction was imposed. High level of money education, etc. could come to the United States without
a problem. Wave of highly educated people coming disproportionally from China, Korea, India. Other
countries, on the other hand (Philipinnes and Vietnam) come doing manual labor.
Equating White with success and non-white with unsuccess? The whole conception of White is a
way of merging our really profound differences as Americans. Off-setting in the current decades,
Black and Latinos, against Whites. Politically motivated, ideological classification to suddenly
discover Hispanic Whites different from other Whites. When relative income becomes the same, they
will become White.
Even an attempt at a positive stereotype becomes a negative one.

Saguy Employment Discrimination or Sexual

Violence?
Question: Why in the United States is sexual harassment a type of discrimination whereas in France, it

is a type of violence?
How and why have sexual harassment laws been defined differently in American and French
law? And is this due to different womens movements?
Rationale: How do social and legal constraints as well as disposition effect the attitudes towards
gender, class, and social issues such as workplace harassment? Attempt to weigh the effects given
history. Choice of activists on how to fight for rights as well as different opportunities.
Today there is a growing world culture, with countries having less cultural and political
differences, so why is the recent sexual harassment movement so different in these countries?
Theoretical Statement: France's sexual harassment law is narrower in scope than the U.S. Law in that
it recognizes only those instances in which there is both abuse of hierarchical power and explicit
demands for sexual activity may be seen as a result of its socialistic attitudes towards workers.
Women activists in the U.S. chose to use civil acts to shape the laws regarding sexual harassment,
leading to limits in how it is dealt with.
Method: Compare 2 countries with similarities but political and cultural differences (laws,
jurisprudence, strategies).
(comparative analysis). in picking the U.S. and France, she controlled for high rates of female
employment and independent womens movements, which lead to the creation of sexual
harassment laws.

Zeitlin - Death in Vietnam

Question: Has every young American man had an equal chance of getting killed in the war in
Vietnam, whatever his social origins.
Rationale: Does war equalize the threat of death or does class affect life chances?
This is socially and politically significant; social factors shouldnt affect life chances in war.
Theoretical Statement: There is ample evidence that the life chances of the poor and of workers in
general suffer by comparison to those of more privileged strata in the United States.
Poor are highly over-represented.
The poor in every occupational group are over-represented among the war dead.
The sons of the poor and of the workers have borne by far the greatest burden of the war in
Vietnam, in the measured but immeasurable precision of death.
Method: This study is based on data gathered systematically on every serviceman from the state of
Wisonsin killed in the war in Vietnam through December 31, 1967.
Occupational and income distributions of the causalities' parents vs. distribution of these attributes in a
one-third random sample of the parents of male seniors in all of the public, private, and parochial
schools in 1957 in Wisconsin.

Arnone - In Solidarity?: 1996 Truckers

Organizing Campaign at the San Pedro Ports
Question: How does the mode of decision making of the union in organizing new members interact

with the consciousness of those being organized to determine the efficacy of strategy?
1) How deregulation of the trucking industry created the conditions that facilitated the
mobilization of drivers
Employer relationship to contractor relationship.
Truckers tended to own their vehicles whereas before, trucker companies owned the
vehicles. If they decided to stop working, they take their truck with them.
Increase congestion of ports
2) How conditions created by deregulation led to concrete organization of truck drivers
3) How CWA's style/mode of decision making excluded highly-mobilized and proud
independent truck drivers.
Rationale: What factors are important in the effectiveness of an organization
This group had a high collective capacity and strong identity, but the CWA still failed to organize
it there must be some explanation.
Theoretical Statement: Union campaigns win when you combine the mobilization of workers and the
research of leaders.
Method: Speaking to those affected by the issue personally
replicated a previous qualitative study
I think theres more to this one too
Making of strategy and execution of strategy
Independent contractor ineligible to any right given to employee
Health benefits, unions, etc.
Double-breasting: start other company then hire independent drivers, shift away employee model.

one of the 3 questions isnt theoretical proposition, its thesis or argument

which is the same thing as an empirical statement. Ill show you what my TA talked about later.
so I didnt correct any of those
specific numbers in the method sections dont matter. what matters is what kind of analysis it is.
so I stopped correcting those too