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17 Cards in this Set
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Economic Resources
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Income, Wealth
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Income
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occupational wages, salary, or investments
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Wealth
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Everything you own, money in total, valuable goods.
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Reasons for SS in the USA
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Economic Resources, Occupations, Formal Education, Ancestry, Gender, Religion
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American class System.
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UPPER CLASS (Upper upper class, Lower upper class), MIDDLE CLASS (upper middle, lower middle), WORKING CLASS, LOWER CLASS
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Structural Social Mobility in America
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1.Social mobility over the past century has been fairly high.
2.The long-term trend in social mobility haves been upward. 3.Within a single generation, social mobility is usually small. 4. Social mobility since the 1970s has been uneven. |
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Intragenerational Social Mobility
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is a change in social position occurring during a person's lifetime.
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Intergenerational Social Mobility
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The upward or downward social mobility of children compared to their parents.
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Middle Class Slide
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The idea that within the last decade many people have fallen out of the middle class into the lower class.
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Deindustrialization of America
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beginning to lose and have have lost many industrial jobs in america.
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Kinds of Poverty
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Relative and Absolute
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Relative Poverty
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People are denied or being deprived of social recourses.
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Absolute Poverty
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Deprivation of resources that are life-threatening
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Poor people in america
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Kids, Females
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Oscar Lewis
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Poor people are responsible for their own poverty.
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Subculture
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Live in the moments when it comes to their resources.
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William Wilson
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Society is responsible for poverty.
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