Module 14 Psych Soc Strategy - Social Structure and Inequity

Suggested Assignments

Study the conceptual treatment of Social Structure in your MCAT book-set and complete the odd numbered problems.

Continue review of the conceptual vocabulary for Social Structure using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

Extend practice using the Essential Concepts ANKI Deck to include the Social Structure cards. 

Integrated Course practice items:

Khan Academy Psychology Videos
Social structures
Macrosociology vs microsociology
Social institutions
Social institutions - education, family, and religion
Social institutions - government, economy, health and medicine
Functionalism
Conflict theory
Social constructionism
Symbolic interactionism
Rational choice-exchange theory
Social theories overview (part 1)
Social theories overview (part 2)
Relating social theories to medicine
Demographics
Demographic structure of society - age
Demographic structure of society - race and ethnicity
Demographic structure of society - immigration
Demographic structure of society - sex, gender, and sexual orientation
Demographic structure of society overview
Urbanization
Population dynamics
Demographic transition
Globalization theories
Globalization- trade and transnational corporations
Social movements
Overview of demographics
Culture
Culture and society
Overview of culture
Subculture vs counterculture
Jim goes to college subculture
Culture lag and culture shock
Diffusion
Mass media
Evolution and human culture
Discrimination
Discrimination individual vs institutional
Prejudice vs discrimination
Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige
Stereotypes stereotype threat, and self fulfilling prophecy
Social inequality
Overview of social inequality
Upward and downward mobility, meritocracy
Intergenerational and intragenerational mobility social mobility
Absolute and relative poverty
Social reproduction
Social exclusion (segregation and social isolation)
Environmental justice
Residential segregation
Global inequality
Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige
Health and healthcare disparities in the US
Intersectionality
Class consciousness and false consciousness