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