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| according to Weber, a large group of people who rank close to one another in property, prestige, and power; according to Marx, one of two groups: capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor |
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| the total value of everything someone owns, minus the debts |
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| money received, usually from a job, business, or assets |
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| the ability to carry out your will, even over the resistance of others |
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| C. Wright Mills's term for the top people in U.S. corporations, military, and politics who make the nations major decisions |
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| ranking high or low on all three dimensions of social class |
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| ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others, also called status discrepancy |
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| the position that someone occupies in society or a social group |
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| Durkheim's term for a condition in which people become detached from the norms that usually guide their behavior |
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| contradictory class locations |
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| Erik Wright's term for a position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests |
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| a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations |
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| intergenerational mobility |
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| the change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next |
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| movement up the social class ladder |
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| movement down the social class ladder |
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| movement up or down the social class ladder because of changes in the structure of society, not to individual efforts |
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| about the same numbers of people moving up and down the social class ladder, such that, on balance, the social class system shows little change |
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| the official measure of poverty; calculated to included incomes that are less than three times a low-cost food budget |
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| the feminization of poverty |
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| a trend in U.S. poverty whereby most poor families are headed by women |
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| the assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children |
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| forgoing something in the present in the hope of achieving greater gains in the future |
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| the belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough |
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