A way to view systems of stratification; one that permits mobility
What is Open System?
These functionalists believed stratification ensured the best and most talented people fill and are rewarded for the most important occupations within society.
What is Kingsley Davis and Moore (1945)?
What is a myth about poverty; most work low paying jobs.
Locales characterized by poor access to healthy and affordable foods.
What is food deserts?
What is achieved status?
What is conflict theory (influenced by Karl Marx)?
Working a job that does not use full use of one's skills or working part-time when you want to work full-time.
What under-employed?
Estimated as 1/3 the families budget in 1960's.
What is food? Did not take into account rising housing costs.
On open system of stratification based on economics that allows one to change their socioeconomic status.
What is social class?
A social system, society, or political system in which personal success is based on the indivdiuals's abilities and talents and effort.
What is meritocracy?
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What is +300 points!
A critical gap in in employer benefits; particularly in low-wage and part-time jobs.
What health insurance/health access?
Uneducated or poorly educated students pass into adulthood without basic skills.
What is illiteracy?
Social position linked to characteristics that are socially significant but cannot generally be altered (such as race). One is born with it.
What is ascribed status?
Ability to exercise influence on political institutions and political actors to realize personal or groups interests.
What is political voice?
A perspective focusing on the material goods that signify social class
What is symbolic interactionism?
The dollar amount set by the government as a minimum dollar amount to meet basic needs.
What is poverty line?
Thrifty food basket x 3 times; plus size and composition of the family
What is calculation of poverty threshold (established in 1955)?
A high degree of disparity in income, wealth, power, prestige, and other resources.
What is social inequality?
He identified ways institutions benefited from the poor, such as need for prison guards, non-profits helping the poor, owners of welfare motels, and products that would go unused.
Who was Herbert Gan?
Neighborhoods tracts featuring 20% of or more households in poverty.
What is poverty areas as defined by US Census Bureau?