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In Sickness and in Wealth Video

What is the claim of the video?

  • What is the relationship between wealth and health?
  • What kind of evidence is presented?

 

What does comparing data maps of disease rates in the different Louisville council districts reveal? What could explain these differences?

 

Dr. David Williams says: “Stress helps motivate us. In our society today everybody experiences stress. The person who has no stress is a person who is dead.” Describe the body’s stress (fight- or- flight) response. How is chronic stress different? How might chronic stress increase the risk of illness and disease?

Professor Leonard Syme defines "control of destiny" as the “ability to influence the events that impinge on your life.” Why is this ability an important factor for health?

  • What stories from Corey Anderson’s life exemplify a high demand / low control job and stressful home situation?
  • What stories from Jim Taylor’s life illustrate how wealth, power and status translate into better health?

What did the Macaque monkey research teach primatologist Carol Shively about the connections between power, subordination and health? What parallels can we draw to human society?

 Describe examples from the lm that illustrate how racism imposes an additional health burden on people of color. Give examples of both “everyday” racism (being treated unfairly) and “structural” racism (access to resources, power, status and wealth) and describe how these might affect health in different ways.

What social changes were most responsible for the 30-year increase in American life expectancy over the 20th century? What policies does the lm point to that might account for our low rank in recent years compared to other countries (29th as of December 2007)? What characterizes the policies and priorities of countries that have better health outcomes than we do?

Lost in the meritocracy: how I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class

Define:

Merit and Meritocracy              Social Capital                Cultural capital             Economic Capital

Princeton University                  Ivy League                    Elite                             Ruling Class

 

  1. Describe Walter Kirn’s experience in his apartment with his roommates. Give 2 examples. What did he realize about upper-class people?
  2. What does Kirn learn about Princeton and education?
  3. Describe Kirn’s Friends? How did they find eachother? Describe V.
  4. What happened at the party scene? How did he describe the girl? What did he realize that night and how was he going to achieve it?
  5. Explain Leslie’s prank? How was it a turning point in Kirn’s Princeton experience?
  6. Why did he choose to stay in Princeton during the summer?
  7. How did he get the scholarship? What social capital had he learned in Princeton to helped him get the scholarship?

Explain the following quotes:

  1. “This was the system's great flaw, and it enraged us. A pure meritocracy, we'd discovered, can only promote; it can't legitimize. It can confer success but can't grant knighthood. For that it needs a class beyond itself: the high-born genealogical peerage that aptitude testing was created to supplant with a cast of brainy up-and-comers. But we still needed to impress them: the WASPNew Englanders with weekend cokehabits, well-worn deck shoes, and vaguely leftish politics devised in reaction to their parents' conservatism, to which they'd slowly return as they aged.” What other habits will Kirn learn besides the cultural capital to navigate this social group?
  2. “I started skipping classes, which wasn't like me, since the heart of my personal program for winning distinction, despite my baseline bafflement, was the diligent daily maintenance of friendly relations with my professors. I'd learned that by showing up early to say hello and chat with them, staying late to ask them extra questions, and dropping in during office hours to drink their stale coffee and let them bum my cigarettes (they had always just quit smoking, it seemed, but without conviction), I could pull down Bs, at least. If I also showed signs of having read their books (particularly if the course did not require me to), I could manage As.” How did Kirn manage to get good grades?
  3. What did Kirn realize at the end of his college experience? Had he earned an education? What did he learn that helped him in life?

'White Babies' Goes Viral - Indian Country Media Network

Cartoon Analysis

  1. What are the two gentlemen doing? What does the place look like?
  2. What is their ethnicity? How do you know?
  3. What is the news that is being reported? What is the response by the older gentlemen?  Explain his response.

 

Article Questions

  1. What is the main idea of the article?
  2. What is the source of data (evidence) that supports the claim of the article?
  3. What is the impact of the news being reported on American society?
  4. How does this report relate to Takaki’s Chapter 17?
  5. What is your opinion on the issue?