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Key Terms

How to Apply this to Your Life?

Why should I care?

Main Ideas

What to remember

  • Conative Prejudice - Idea that people have a "taste for discrimination"
  • Environmental Racism - a pattern where minorities are disproportionately exposed to hazardous substances both at work and at home.
  • Medicare - For the Elderly and Lower Income elders
  • Medicaid - for lower income families and children.

-Gary Becker's Theory- Cognitive Prejudice

-Functionalist perspective

-Access and frequency of health care for minority groups

  • Economic Inequality & Discrimination

  • Gary Becker's Theory

  • The Theory's effect on everyday life

Economic Inequality and Discrimination

Class Activity

  • Break into 5 groups

Katelyn Schuler

Kyle Saulmon

Natasha Schwartz

Concepts to know

  • Becker's Theory - Over the long run, discrimination in a complex industrial society should gradually disappear because it is both dysfunctional both for the employer and for overall society.
  • Wealth In The U.S - United states = 10x as wealthy as the median Black or Hispanic Household. 73% of non-hispanic White Americans own homes, opposed to 47% and 48% for black and Hispanic.
  • Medicaid & Medicare - Provides federal funding for those on welfare and those whom the states deem to have need for medical coverage help. Relied more on by minorities then white Americans, due to disproportionate Poverty.

Economic and Health Care Systems

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