The Different Classes
The economic group with the greatest wealth and power in society
Upper Class
A discriminatory practice encouraged by the federal government to deny housing and services based on race and ethnicity; and is something that many still feel the effects of today.
Red Lining
This practice of eating dirt was common among poor whites of the south, as it was believed to be rich in minerals and supplemented the sparse diets of poverty.
Geophagia
The richest 1% of Americans own approximately this much of the United States' total wealth.
Over 1/3rd
Working class students attempt to blend in as higher class students by adjusting some markers of their class differences.
Class passing
This economic group is made up of citizens that are highly educated, and highly compensated individuals such as lawyers, doctors, executives, and brokers.
Upper Middle Class
The scientific belief and practice of improving the genetic composition of humanity, asserting that certain genetic traits are superior or more favorable than others. First originating in the United States in the late 1880s.
Eugenics
This refers to classism in the laws, practices, and structures that make up society.
Institutional classism
the ratio by which the mean income of the poor falls below the poverty line
Poverty gap
Can be used as an analytical tool to identify unique discriminative experiences caused by overlapping social identities.
Intersectionality
The class with adults whose annual household income is between ⅔ to double the national median.
Middle Class
A term used to position poor rural whites as “white others” due to failing to meet the expected superiority of whiteness.
White Trash
The poorest counties in the US are predominantly this race?
White
The difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings of men.
Gender wage gap
An event used to highlight the importance of intersectional identities of students to increase comfort in discussing student backgrounds. Ex: panels of students sharing their experiences adjusting to the higher education experience.
Difference education interventions
This class is made of of 1/3rd of households in the US.
Lower Middle Class
Group with the most power, privilege, and higher likelihood of rising in social status.
Dominant Group
These types of boundaries are described as the method of creating, maintaining, contesting, or even dissolving institutionalized, social differences.
Symbolic Boundaries
This term refers to how unevenly income is distributed among a population
Income Inequality
An ideology in the US implying that the upper-class are deserving of what they have, and the lower classes are there because they lack the motivation to move up in class.
Meritocracy
Economic group with the least wealth and power in society
Lower/Working Class
Luis is casually dressed as he walks down the sidewalk of an affluent neighborhood when the police stop him for seeming “suspicious”. This is a mere example of _______ ________.
Structural Racism
When people from a lower social class are treated differently than people from a higher social class
Classism
Attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes without our conscious knowledge.
Implicit Bias
The racial group that makes up the majority of the welfare recipients in the US
White Americans