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Chapter 8
Social Class in the United States
What is Social Class?
• Property– Distinction Between Wealth and Income– Distribution of Property– Distribution of Income
• Power– “Democratic Façade”
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What is Social Class?
– Power Elite– Gov’t Makes no Decisions without Power
Elite?
• Prestige– Occupations and Prestige
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What is Social Class?
• They Pay More• They Require More Education• They Entail More Abstract Thought• They Offer Greater Autonomy
– Displaying Prestige
• Status Inconsistency
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Distribution of the Property of Americans
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Distribution of the Income of Americans
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Dividing the Nation’s Income
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Sociological Models of Social Class
• Updating Weber– Capitalist Class– The Upper Middle Class– The Lower Middle Class– The Working Class– The Working Poor– The Underclass
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Marx’s Model of the Social Classes
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The U.S. Social Class Ladder
Consequences of Social Class
• Physical Health
• Mental Health
• Family Life– Choices of Husbands and Wives– Divorce– Child Rearing
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Consequences of Social Class
• Education
• Religion
• Politics
• Crime and the Judicial System
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Social Mobility
• Intergenerational
• Upward
• Downward
• Structural
• Exchange
• Women and Social Mobility
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Poverty
• Who Are the Poor?– The Geography of Poverty– Race–Ethnicity– Education– The Feminization of Poverty– Old Age
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Patterns of Poverty
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Race-Ethnicity and U.S. Poverty
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Who Ends Up Poor? Poverty by Education and Race-Ethnicity
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Births to Single Mothers
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How Long Does Poverty
Last?
Why are People Poor?
• Social Structure– Features of society deny some people access
to education or training in job skills
• Characteristics of individuals
• Poverty triggers
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Welfare Reform
• Reforming Welfare
• The Conflict View
• Where Is Horatio Alger? The Social Functions of a Myth
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