1. Social Inequality

2. Warm up In your personal opinion, does meritocracy exist in Indonesia?
Meritocracy is a system in which individuals reach the social position that they deserve, based on their educational achievement, talent and skills.
Warm up

3. What is social mobility and what affects peoples’ chances of social mobility?
In order to understand factors of social mobility, we have to first understand social inequality.
Goals of this unit

4. INEQUALITY

5. An affinity group is a group that has something in common
In these groups, discuss:
Positive assumptions about and privileges of this group.
Negative stereotypes about or discrimination of this group.
Group 1: gender (male or female)
Group 2: ethnicity (Chinese or non-Chinese)
Group 3: body shape (skinny/normal or a little more to love)
Affinity groups

7. Small group discussion 10 minutes
Klu Klux Klan (USA)
Front Pembela Islam (Indonesia)
American Nazi Party (USA)
Alternative fur Deutschland (Germany)
Small group discussion 10 minutes

8. Are you prejudiced?

9. Stereotype: the practice of assigning particular, one-sided, partial characteristics to whole groups, regardless of their individual differences. Can be positive or negative
Prejudice: an unexamined opinion that a group of people are inferior or different.
Discrimination: treating someone less favorably because of a certain trait that they possess.
Blatant bias: conscious beliefs, feelings, and behavior that people admit to having, which mostly express hostility toward other groups (out- groups) while unduly favoring one’s own group (in- group) (primordialism?)
Stereotype (cognitive) Prejudice (emotional) Discrimination (behavioral) Blatant Bias (prasangka yg menyolok)

10. Social inequality creates a society of people who do not have equal opportunities. Institutionalized racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, homophobia, religious tensions.
However, even if these “–isms” did not exist, there are still deep economic and social divides simply based on what family and country you are born into.

11. People do not start from the same starting line.

12. Statistics (upah minimum karyawan/kota) 13,300 Rp = $1
Rupiah
USD
1. US per hour
In the US, the minimum wage per hour is $7.25. (since July 2015)
$7.25/hour
2. US per month
This means that a person who works 40 hours a week (4 weeks in 1 month) makes __________ per month.
3. Surabaya per month
In Surabaya, the minimum wages is Rp per month (
Rp /month
4. Surabaya per day
In Surabaya, the minimum wage is _____________ per day. (Based on 30 days/month)
5. Surabaya per hour
If a person works 8 hours a day in Surabaya, their wage per hour is ___________.
6. World poverty
If you make less than $1.90 per day, you are poor (World Bank, 2015)
$1.90/day
7. US poverty
The poverty line in the USA was $11,880 for one person for one year in This is _________ per day. (4 weeks a month and 5 days a week)
Statistics (upah minimum karyawan/kota) 13,300 Rp = $1

13. In the USA in 2013, 45 million people lived below the poverty line
In the USA in 2013, 45 million people lived below the poverty line. This is 14% of the population.
Berdasarkan profil kemiskinan BPS, walaupun dari sisi jumlah kemiskinan di perdesaan menurun, namun secara persentase penduduk miskin meningkat. Pada bulan Maret 2015 persentase penduduk miskin perdesaan sebesar 14,21 persen, lalu turun pada September 2015 menjadi 14,09 persen kemudian naik 0,02 persen di bulan Maret 2016 menjadi 14,11 persen.
March 2015
Sept 2015
March 2016

14. People do not start from the same starting line.

15. We know that:
People do not start from the same starting line.
What is social mobility and what affects peoples’ chances of social mobility?
Social mobility is: The movement from one social class to another.

17. Movement from one social class to another is known as…
The system of society is divided into two forms, which are…and…
Social mobility is easier in an….
One example of a closed social system is a….
Social mobility is closely related to…
Social mobility happens in two ways, which are…and…
The movement of individuals or social objects from one social group to another within the same levels is known as…
Vertical social mobility is divided into…
The movement of social status which occurs within the same generation is called…
Social mobility takes place within a country whose political system is…
From a gender perspective, a group within society which more easily engaged in social mobility is…
How would winning the lottery affect social mobility?
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