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Advanced PlacementUnited StatesGovernment & Politics
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Ethnocentrism
Selective –perceptions based on background, attitudes, biases
Inability to appreciated the difference in point of view based on differing cultures.
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Cleavages: Reinforcing and Cross-cutting
Reinforcing Cleavages: political conflict becomes more intense and there is greater polarization in society
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Cross-cutting cleavages
Cross-cutting cleavages: instances where differences don’t reinforce each other.
*ex. American diversity-lessens political conflict because individuals have multiple allegiances
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Elements of Diversity
Geography Sectional differences Social and economic differences Race and ethnic differences Gender and sexual orientation Religious differences
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Poverty The 2009 Poverty Guidelines for the
48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
Persons in family Poverty guideline 1 $10,830 2 $14,570 3 $18,310 4 $22,050
5 $25,790
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Geography and Politics
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Race and Ethnicity
African Americans 13 percent of the population.
Hispanics 10 percent of the population.
Asians 4 percent of the population.
Native Americans 1 percent of the population.
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The Gender Gap
In 2000 there were 3 female governors, 13 female senators, and 58 members in the House of Representatives.
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore received 12 percent more female votes than the Republican candidate George W. Bush.
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Congress and the Gender Gap
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Politics and the Gender Gap
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Gender Gap on Political Issues
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Gender Gap and Wages
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The Gender Gap (con’t.) Sixty-four percent more women than
men work at or below the minimum wage.
Men and women do not earn comparable wages even when education levels are equivalent.
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The Gender Gap
Women earn 78 cents on the dollar MBA grads-women earn 4,600 less One year out of college, women
make 80% of male counterpart’s salary in same occupation
3% of fortune 500 CEOs
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Women are in the majority of all college graduates and law school graduates but less than a third are politicians or partners in law firms.
Closing the gap could increase GDP by 9% Women hold 17 percent of the seats in
Congress, well below Europe’s 22 percent and far behind the Nordic countries’ 42 percent
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The surge of women running as anti-abortion conservatives reflects a “war over who gets to define what feminism means.”
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In 2008, 6 percent more men than women supported the GOP presidential nominee John McCain. (White men, in particular, have tended to vote more conservatively than almost any other demographic group.)
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Women’s Issues
Politics & Women Reproductive Rights Workplace Issues Health care Parenting & Caregiving
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Sexual Orientation
Roughly 10 percent of Americans identify themselves as homosexual.
Vermont, 2000, 1st state to permit same-sex couples to form ‘civil unions’.
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American “Unity”
Melting PotVs.
Salad BowlAnalogies
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Implications...
Religion Income, wealth Occupation Social Class Age Education