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| a large group of people who rank closely to one another in property, power and prestige. |
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| something of an accounting term. take a persons property and subtract their debts. |
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| the ability to carry out your will despite resistance |
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| those who make the big decisions in US society |
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| when a person has a similar rank on all three dimensions of social class--property, power and prestige. |
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| when a person has a mixture of high and low ranks. For example, when people of lower socio-economic status come into wealth. |
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| contradictory class locations |
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| when people are members of more than one class at the same time. |
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| Erik Wright's contradictory class locations |
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| 1) capitalists 2) petty bourgeoisie 3) managers 4) workers |
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| little to no connection to the job market, have little chance of elevating |
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| physical and mental health |
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| higher risk toward the lower ends of social ladder |
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| more likely for the lower statuses |
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| Intergenerational mobility |
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| refers to a change that occurs between generations when grown-up children end up on a different rung of the social class ladder from their parents. |
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| higher social status=increased likelyhood of voting repub, lower social status=conservative on social issues, liberal on economic issues. |
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| changes in society that cause large numbers of people to move up or down on the social ladder. |
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| when large numbers of people move up and down the social class ladder, but on balance, the proportions of the social classes remain about the same. |
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| speaks to high rates of single mothers and mother-headed families |
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| the suggestion that the poor tend to get trapped in a culture that promotes poverty. |
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| Why are people poor? Features of society |
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| some features of society deny people access to education or the learning of job skills. emphasis to racial-ethnic, age and gender discrimination. |
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| Why are people poor? Characteristics of individuals |
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| dropping out of high school, having children in the teen years, averaging more children than women in the other social classes. though these are criticized because they blame the victim. |
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| Conflict theory and welfare: |
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| the purpose of welfare is not to help people, but, rather, to maintain a reserve labor force. |
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| that if you strive for success you will attain it. Functionalists believe that this is functional for society. |
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| How does the Horatio Alger myth reduce pressure to change the system? |
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| blame for not becoming successful is put on the shoulders of the individual rather than society. |
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