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Social Stratification
Social Stratification (4 important principles)
Social Mobility
Caste System
Class System
Class - status consistancy
Meritocracy
ideology
Functions of social stratification
(Davis Moore Thesis)
Stratification and Conflict
(Karl Marx - class and conflict)
Class conflict and alienation,
Western Capitalism to experience a Marxist revolution
Max Weber
Weber- Socioeconomic status
Weber's view of inequality
Social Stratification from
three theoretical approaches pg 246
Dimensions of Social Inequality
(income)
Dimensions of Social Inequality
Wealth - Corporations
Dimensions of inequality - Page 249- Distribution of income and wealth in the US
Dimensions of social inequality
Occupational prestige
Dimensions of social inequality (Education)
Ascription and Social Stratification
Ascription and social stratification
(Ancestry)
Social Classes in the United States
Upper-Upper Class and Upper Class
The lower upper class
The middle class (40-45% of the population)
Working class (30-35% of population)
The lower class
The difference class makes
The difference class makes
(class and values)
Types of social mobility
Types of Social Mobility
Thinking about Diversity pg 258
(Exception or rule)
Poverty in the US
Poverty
Race and eithnicity
Poverty
feminization
Working Poor
Explaining Poverty
Oscar Lewis
William Julius Wilson -
Society primarily responsible for poverty
Controversy and Debate
Page 267
The welfare dilema
