To complete Module 10 read Chapter 10, answer 5 website questions, and complete the reflection in the discussion forum.

1. http://www.newstimes.com/archive95/nov2295/bzh.htm
   
   Document: Hispanics Have Harder Time Getting, Holding onto Jobs
   
   List the factors which contributed to the high rate of discrimination against those classified as Hispanics applicants?
   
   
2. http://www.census.gov/td/stf3/append_b.html#RACE
   
   Document: Definitions of Subject Characteristics: Race
   
   What are two examples of how the government transforms many groups into one racial, ethnic, or ancestral category?
   
   
3. http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/edusa/Socioecon.html
   
   Document: Socio-Economic Conditions of South African Children
   
   Look over the headlines of the documents in this site. Relative to the countries of the world, what general statement can we make about economic and social inequality in South Africa?
   
   
4. http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/hes/housing/ahs/tab2-11.html
   
   Document: Why Move?
   
   Which statistics suggest a change in economic status, either upward or downward?
   
   
5. http://www.census.gov/cdrom/lookup
   
   Document: 1990 Census Lookup
   
   Follow these instructions: choose “STF3C-part 1” and hit return, stay with the default options, and then page back up highlight “submit”; then hit return. Use the same default options, highlight “submit,” and hit return. Next, page down to select Table P80 (from a list of more than 300 tables) and hit return. Now go up to the beginning of the document with the up arrow and highlight “submit.” Stay with the default options and then “submit.” Use this table to figure the percentage of households in each income category. When this survey was done, there were 91, 993, 582 households in the United States.
   
   
6. http://pilot.msu.edu/user/approg/text/us90t2.txt
   
   Document: Detailed Occupations by Sex
   
   What are three limitations of the income data? Based on this information, how accurate do you think income data is?
   
   
7. http://www.census.gov/cdrom/lookup
   
   Document: 1990 Census Lookup
   
   Follow the instructions for creating Table P80 (on p. 195), but this time select Tables P8, P10, P82, and P83 and create income distribution tables for blacks, whites, and hispanics. Which of the three kinds of households are disproportionately concentrated in lower-income categories? (Note: To answer this question, you will have to calculate the percentage of households in each income category.)
   
   
8. gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/census/summaries/eeous
   
   Document: Detailed Occupations by Sex
   
   Page down the list of occupations until you find the categories “health diagnosing occupations” and “health assessment and treatemetn occupations.” Use the data to create a table that shows the percentage of men and women in each occupational category. Which occupations contain a disproportionate number of males? A disproportionate number of females?
   
   
9. http://dol.gov/dol/wb/public/wb_pubs/20f95.htm
   
   Document: 20 Facts on Women Workers
   
   What percentage of the male median income do white women, black women, and black men earn?
   
   
10. ftp://stats.bls.gov/pub/news.release/occomp.txt
    
    Document: New Survey Reports on Wages and Benefits for Temporary Help Services Workers
    
    Study the wages and benefits tables for the temporary workers. Davis and Moore would argue that differences in hourly wages and other benefits are a result of occupational categories’ functional importance. Do you agree with their explanation? Explain your answer in light of this data.
    
    
11. ftp://stats.bls.gov/pub/news.release/occomp.txt
    
    Document: New Survey Reports on Wages and Benefits for Temporary Help Services Workers
    
    How do wages for blue-collar temporary workers compare with those for white- collar temp workers? Do you believe that the blue-collar worker positions are less functionally important than the white-collar positions? Explain.
    
    
12. http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/eeo-stateis.html
    
    Document: Equal Employment Opportunity File
    
    Of the positions listed, which ones do you think are filled disproportionately by males? by females?
    
    
13. gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/census/summaries/eeous
    
    Document: Detailed Occupations by Sex
    
    What kind of pattern do you see? Which female-dominated occupations pay the highest salaries? The lowest salaries? Which male-dominated occupations pay the highest salaries? The lowest? Compare the lowest salaries in male- dominated occupations with the lowest salaries in female-dominated occupations, and the highest salaries in female-dominated occupations with the highest salaries in male-dominated occupations. How do you account for the inequality?
    
    
14. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/ce-usa/manifesto.html
    
    Document: Manifesto to the Communist Party
    
    How does Marx define the bourgeoisie and the proletartiat? What historical forces gave rise to the bourgeoisie?
    
    
15. http://www.propertyguide.com/steps.htm#Step3
    
    Document: Step Three: Home Buying Power
    
    What are the various sources from which people can draw income?
    
    
16. http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/hhes/housing/ahs/tab2-3.html
    
    Document: Big Homes?
    
    Select “tab2-13.html,” “tab2-3.html,” “tab2-8.html,” “tab2-7.html,” and tab3-14.html” to complete the accompanying chart. There were 94,724,000 occupied households in the United States at the time of this survey. Figure the percentage in the top and bottom categories of each housing characteristic by dividing the number in that category by the total number of occupied households in the United States.
    

Housing Characteristics	Number of Households	Percentage of Households (n/94,724,000)
Monthly cost Less than $100 More than $1500	____________ ____________	____________ ____________
Rooms 1 room 10 or more rooms	____________ ____________	____________ ____________
Square footage per person Less than 200 More than 1500	____________ ____________	____________ ____________
Opinion of neighborhood Worst neighborhood (1) Best neighborhood (10)	____________ ____________	____________ ____________
Worth of house Less than $10,000 More than $300,000	____________ ____________	____________ ____________

17. ftp://stats.bls.gov/pub/news/release/disp.txt
    
    Document: Worker Displacement During the Early 1990s
    
    How does the BLS report define displaced workers? What are the top reasons displaced workers lose their jobs? What category of workers is at highest risk of job displacement? What geographic region of the United States has the highest number of displaced workers?
    
    
18. http://stats.bls.gov/ceschick.htm
    
    Document: Why Did Employment Expand in Poulty Processing Plants?
    
    What structural factors contributed to job growth in the poultry processing industry? What other meat processing industries lost jobs as a result of these factors? What are the wages associated with job growth in the poultry industry? With job decline in the industries that lost jobs?
    
    
19. http://www.pomona.edu/REPRES/whites/whitesredo.html
    
    Document: The Portrayal of Whites in the Media
    
    How are “whites” portrayed by the media? How many white are classified as poor? How does this number compare with other groups?
    
    
20. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/poverty/poverty.htm
    
    Document: The HHS Poverty Guidelines: One Version of the Federal Porverty Measure
    
    Do you believe the poverty threshold is set too low or too high? Explain.