Social Structure and Inequality

Social Structure and Inequality

Sep 1: Read The Stick Up Kids reading by sociologist Dr. Randol Contreras  (click the link below)

Step 2: Read “The Truly Disadvantaged” reading by sociologist William Julius Wilson in chapter 6 of your textbook

Step 3: Click the link below to visit the “Inequality is real” simulation. Explore some of the options and outcomes based on your selections. Include your views on the experience with the simulation and how you think it applicable to Social Structure Theory.

Step 4: Click the link below to visit the “playspent.org” simulation. Explore some of the options and outcomes based on your selections. Include your views on the experience with the simulation in this week’s discussion and how it applicable to Social Structure Therory.

Social Structure and Inequality

Step 5. Considering the major principles of social structure theory respond to the following questions.

Q1. Is income inequality the key to understanding the racialized nature of crime rates? Explain your answer? (Use at least two examples from the article, text readings, and video clips”)

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If you answered yes to Q1 do you think this is a social justice issue? How can it be mitigated and eradicated?

If you answered no to Q1, what factor(s) do you think explain the racialized nature of crime rates?

Q2. Which sociological explanation (theory) of crime and delinquency, covered in chapter 6, helps you understand the trajectory of the stick-up kids? (Be sure to use examples from the reading and the simulation activities)

Social Structure and Inequality

Q3. How do the social conditions, like those illustrated in the “Covid-19 Conviction Crisis” video clip from this week, perpetuate and maintain the social structural elements of crime? (use examples from the video)

Q2. Which sociological explanation (theory) of crime and delinquency, covered in chapter 6, helps you understand the trajectory of the stick-up kids? (Be sure to use examples from the reading and the simulation activities)