7. SOC 101- Social Class

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Sociology 101 Social Class, Stratification, and Middle Class Culture

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Sociology 101 Social Class, Stratification, and Middle Class Culture

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Social Class

The social structural position groups hold relative to the

economic, social, political, and cultural resources of their society.

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Can Include: • Possessing goods & wealth

• Having income • Having access to particular

jobs • Quality of everyday life

Life ChancesThe opportunities that people have in common by virtue of

belonging to a particular class

Social Class

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Social Class

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Social Class

Socioeconomic Status (SES) Ranking based on three factors

Income: The amount of money a person receives in a given period

Wealth: The total value of what one owns, minus one’s debt

Occupation:a person's

principal work as a means of

earning a livingEducational Attainment:

Measured as the total years of formal education

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Class

Structurein the United

States

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper Class

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper Class

5%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

hFinancial Wealth 72%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

90%

Financial Wealth 72%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

10%of US

Wealt

h

90%

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 28%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

hFinancial Wealth 72%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Financial Wealth 72%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

80%

Fin

ancial

Wealth 7

%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

a.k.a. “The Working

Poor”

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

17- 20%

a.k.a. “The Working

Poor”

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

17- 20%

a.k.a. “The Working

Poor”Little formal

education; Minimum-wage jobs or periodically unemployed

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Under Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

17- 20%

a.k.a. “The Working

Poor”Little formal

education; Minimum-wage jobs or periodically unemployed

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Under Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

17- 20%

a.k.a. “The Working

Poor”Little formal

education; Minimum-wage jobs or periodically unemployed

10%

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Class

Structurein the United

StatesUpper ClassUpper-Middle

Class

Middle ClassLower-Middle

Class

Lower Class

Under Class

Owns the major share of corporate & personal

wealth 5%

90%

of US Wealt

h

15%

Have attained high incomes & high

prestige – but not wealth

40-50%

Hard to clearly define

Less about economic attainment & more about

ideology & values

Skilled trades & low-income bureaucratic workers

a.k.a. “The Working

Class”

17- 20%

a.k.a. “The Working

Poor”Little formal

education; Minimum-wage jobs or periodically unemployed

10%Permanently unemployed & without much means of

economic or relational support

Financial Wealth 72%

Financial Wealth 21%

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Music & Middle-Class Ideology

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