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Class
Socioeconomic Status
Class Differences
Economic Inequality
Teaching for Equality
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A system that differentially structures group access to economic, political, cultural, and social resources
What is class
100
What are the five determinants of SES?
What is Occupation, Income, Wealth, Education, Power.
100
$7.25 is this salary
What is Minimum Wage
100
Income inequality is _______ in the United States than in all other industrialized countries.
What is higher
100
putting students into different groups/classes based on their intellectual abilities
What is tracking?
200
The political-economic system that keeps people in the same status since they were born
What is socioeconomic strata
200
According to our textbook, what are the wealthiest nations in the world?
What is United States, Canada, and Countries in Western Europe.
200
This salary of 39-100k a year makes up what class?
What is The Middle Class
200
Inequality in the US is split into three forms. They are
What is racial and ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and age inequality
200
Decreasing poverty through establishment of educational programs
What is President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (1960)
300
Most people identify themselves in this social class
What is middle class?
300
What type of workers is just over half of the workforce today comprised of?
What is white-collar workers.
300
judges, lawyers, architects, physicians, college professors, teachers, computer programmers, scientists make up this class
What is The Upper Middle Class
300
People in poverty are more likely to not have
What is graduated from high school
300
The view that one’s class level makes one superior to members of a class perceived below one’s own.
What is classism?
400
This people often receive low rankings in the social stratification system. (Name at least two; name all five and receive another 100 points)
What is women, people with disabilities, the elderly, children, and/or people of color
400
What is the best predictor of occupational prestige?
What is education.
400
This pay ratio sets the Upper Class well above the rest
What is 263:1
400
Women are assigned traditional roles of mother and wife and have limited job opportunities
What is institutional discrimination
400
When teachers develop instructions and interactions w/their students that ensure that their students will behave as teachers expect.
What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy
500
In society, people accept socially defined behavior based on what? (Name at least two; name all four and receive another 100 points)
What is occupation, race, gender, and/or class.
500
What do individuals at the upper SES level exert more of?
What is power.
500
What Act required public schools to recognize educational rights and provide protection for homeless children
What is The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act -1987
500
What age group has a higher poverty rate
What is 18 and under
500
It’s a way of eliminating discriminatory practices that separate students based on SES or race
What is Detracking?