Moving Up
The tendency of people to remain in their social classes, replicating the social class of their parents.
Social Reproduction
This phenomena is experienced in countries such as India and the Philippines where highly educated immigrants leave their home country
Brain drain
Americans spend the most money on this industry.
Healthcare
This year was a prominent in terms of social movements that shook the political and social world.
1848
Since the 1970s, this has been emphasized as one of the major factors contributing to homelessness.
Lack of Affordable Housing
This theory sees education and experience as investments that increase productivity
Human Capital Theory
A combination of these things created institutional ghettoes to keep nonwhite urban populations concentrated in the least desirable portions of the city.
Low income, public policy and community hostility
These sets of policies emphasized work to help only the deserving, maintaining state and local control.
The New Deal programs
The Senaca Falls Convention in 1848 kickstarted the women's right to what.
Vote (Suffrage)
Building stadiums, casinos and recreational attractions such as amusement parks and aquariums is a strategy that low income urban areas utilize to do what.
Increase employment and community income
A social system open to outsiders who mostly enter near the bottom
Immigration Mobility
This group has been increasingly part of the homeless population.
Women with Children
These sets of policies and programs became a national slogan in the 1990s to get Americans into the workforce.
Welfare to Work
Which scholar argues that social change only happens when there is active revolt against oppression and exploitation.
Marx
This book by Betty Freidan contributed to sparking the women's movement alongside the fight for racial civil rights in the 1960s.
The Feminine Mystique
Hereditary slavery and the caste system are examples of what type of system.
Closed stratification system
This phenomena describes the greatest growth in US poverty in recent decades
Suburbanization of poverty - more poverty in the suburbs
While absolute poverty was not increasing in the United States, this continues to increase.
Relative Poverty
This event is tied to the rise of the American Gay Rights movement.
1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York City
This practice refers to dumping of toxic waste and garbage to areas where people of colour who have limited political voice live.
Environmental Racism
Blau and Duncan's study uses this type of analysis to illustrate the complex relationships of the factors associated between father and son's socioeconomic status.
Path Analysis
This region includes cities such as Detroit, Pittsburgh, Rochester and Trenton which have experienced a decline of manufacturing industries
The Rust Belt
European countries differ from America, where they have this type of governmental system that has a combination of national social supports.
Welfare State
These sets of policies and laws restricting social and political participation of the black population, first implemented by politicians in Southern US.
Jim Crow Laws
The decrease in industrial jobs (manufacturing/factory jobs) has made way for the increase in these types of jobs
Information Technology Jobs, (White-Collar and Specialized work)