Systems of stratification
The division of society into groups based on social hierarchies
What is Social stratification?
Understanding what wine pairs with foods; knowing what a syllabus means; the ability to discuss fashion and finance; appreciating foods such as escargot.
What is cultural capital?
The example of teams competing with a coloring contest of the American Dream.
What is social class hierarchies and stratification of resources.
The most extreme form of stratification
What is slavery?
The market that creates a division between capitalists that have every economic advantage, and the workers have none.
What is Conflict Theory (or Marx).
The example by author Rank (Rethinking Poverty) focusing on musical chairs.
What are the lack of jobs (or sociological Imagination)?
The example from our textbook in which intergenerational mobility has occurred.
What is Baby Boomers?
The New Jim Crow defined by Michelle Alexander
What is the role of the criminal justice system in perpetuating a caste system that discriminate people of color disproportionally.
Theorist that claims that social class also includes power, prestige, and wealth
Who is Max Weber?
The examples of a national crises regarding poverty.
What is the New Deal; War on Poverty and Great society programs (ie headstart; medicaid)
The movement in which you can increase or decrease your social class standing within a lifetime.
What is intragenerational mobility?
How the United States stratifies.
What is social class
Structural Functionalism offers this view regarding social class.
What is the importance of roles for a functioning society, consequently greater rewards provided to those have more training or skills?
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (or Welfare Reform Act)
What is a program started in the 90s by Clinton administration that severely impacted families living in poverty- for the worse?
When you move up in class status in comparison to your parents.
What is intergenerational moblity
Your professor holding a PhD yet struggles financially.
What is called Status Inconsistency in which there are contradictory levels of status.
The passing down of social class from one generation to another.
What is social reproduction?
The fight for $15
What are the protests that pushed for people to have a living wage?
The key examples of what makes poverty invisible from our textbook.
What is geography, policts, technology, homelessness.