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38 Cards in this Set
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the division of society into categories, ranks, or classes
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social stratification
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the unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards
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social inequality
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scarce resources and social rewards are distributed on the basis of ascribed statuses
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caste system
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marriage outside one's own social category
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exogamy
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marriage within one's own social category
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endogamy
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There is more what in the caste system?
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Exogamy
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Occupation determines what
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prestige
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socioeconomic
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SEC
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fight over scarce resources that cause social inequality
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conflict theory
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1 percent of population
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Upperclass
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Controls sizable wealth of country
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upper class
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inheritance Rockefeller; Kennedys
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Old money
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Made money on own (instructors, business owners)
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New Money
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New Money has politically active
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nationwide
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14 percent of pop. Business people/ professionals
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upper middle class
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have higher degrees; politically active
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local state
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30 percent of pop. White collar jobs
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Lower Middle Class
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high school/ college education service industry
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Lower middle class
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30 percent of pop. High school education
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Working class
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working class is what kind of worker
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blue collar
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22 percent of pop
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Working Poor
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three percent of pop
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Under class
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Drop outs. Lowest paying jobs
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Under class
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education can get you out of this class
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under class
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the moving up in paying jobs and prestige
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Up ward mobility
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73 percent works in what industry
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service
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4 things that cause downward mobility
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illness, divorce, widowhood, retirement
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_____ percent of people live at or below poverty
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Who makes up the largest part of the poverty makeup
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children 35 percent
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the two groups assoc with poverty
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african americans and hispanics
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woman are more likely to be in poverty. Why?
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in divorce women get the children
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Life chances are
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things that increase or decrease because of income
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4 life changes
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Health, length of life, housing, education
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education as a life change
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who hang around with. Not focused on ed bc of poverty
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patterns on poverty
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divorce rate is higher; crime rate increase
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Government responses
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LBJ and war on poverty
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Government response
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social security; medicare
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Goverment response
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food stamps, Medicaid
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