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37 Cards in this Set
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Social Class |
As a large group of people who rank closely to one another in property, power, and prestige |
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Property |
Buildings, land animals, machinary, cars, stocks, bonds, businesses, furniture, jewerly and Bank Accounts |
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Wealth |
When you add up the valuse of someones property and subtract the debt. Personas Net Worth.
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Income |
Flow of money; wages, royalties, rent interest, and even alimony |
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Who Own's 75% percent of Wealth |
Owned by 10% of Nations Famillies |
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Who Own's 1% |
Americans own more than 1/3 of all U.S. Assets |
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Power |
Ability to get your way despite resistance-- Was concentrated in the hands of a few |
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Power Elite |
Refer to those who make the big decisions in the US Socieity |
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Democratic Facade |
Conceals the real source of power in the US |
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Prestige |
Prespect or Regard |
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Top jobs Share these Features |
1. Pay More 2. Require More Education 3. Involve more abstract thoughts 4. Offer greater authonomy (Independence) |
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Status Inconsistancy |
Mixture of high and low ranks |
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Status |
Positon in social group |
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Anomie |
Lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group |
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Social Class Theory |
Marxs's; Two Classes: Capalists and Workers |
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Contradictory Class Locations |
a persons position in the class structure can generate contradictory interest Example: Automobile mechanic business owner may want his mechanics to have higher wages because he too has experienced their working conditions, but deads him to resist pressure to raise their wages due to profit and competition |
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Wrights Modification of Marxs Model "Social Class" |
1. Capitalists 2. Petty Bourgeoisies 3. Managers 4. Workers |
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Blue Bloods |
Old Money Capitialists |
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Nouveau Riche |
New Money |
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Capital CLass |
Powerful elite that consists of 1% of US Population |
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Upper Middle Class |
The one most shaped by Education; 15% |
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Lower Middle Class |
34% of US Population; Jobs require that they follow orders by upper class members. |
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Working Class |
30% of US Population realtively unskilled blue collar and white collor workers |
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Working Poor |
15% of Population work at unskilled low pay temporary and seasonal jobs. |
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Under Class |
This grou has little or no connection with the job market. 5% Ex: Homeless, depend on Welfare. |
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How can social class effect Physical Health? |
1. Social class opens and closes doors to medical health 2. Lifestyle 3. Life is hard on poor |
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Types of Social Mobility |
1. Intergenerational Mobility 2. Upward Mobility 3. Downward Mobility 4 Structural Mobility 5. Exchange Mobility |
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Intergenerational Mobility |
On a different run of social class ladder from the one occupied by their parents |
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Upward Mobility |
Up the social class ladder |
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Downward Mobility |
Down the social class ladder |
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Structure Mobility |
Change in society that allows lard Numbers of people to move down or up the class ladder |
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Exchange Mobility |
Large numbers to move up or down class ladder, but, on the balance, the proportions of the social class remain about the same.
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Poverty Line |
Determines who is poor, US draws this line. |
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Feminization of Poverty |
Association of poverty with women; Women average only about 72% of what men earn |
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Culture of poverty |
Assume that the values and behaviors of the poor "make them fundementally different from other americans, and these factors are largely responsible for their continued long term poverty" |
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Horatio Alger Myth |
That limitless possibilities exsist for everyone. |
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Ideology |
Promoted by elites to legitimize and perpetuate their power. |
