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Title: Essentials of Sociology, 6th Edition


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Chapter Eight Social Class in the United States
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Chapter Overview
  • What is Social Class?
  • Sociological Models of Social Class
  • Consequences of Social Class
  • Social Mobility
  • Poverty

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What is Social Class?
  • Social Class
  • A large group of people who rank
    closely to one another in wealth, power, and
    prestige.

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Components of Social Class
  • Wealth - Value of a Persons Assets
  • Property and Income
  • Distinguishing Between Wealth Income
  • Distribution of Income
  • Power
  • Democratic Façade
  • Power Elite

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Components of Social Class
  • Occupations and Prestige
  • They Pay More
  • They Require More Education
  • They Entail More Abstract Thought
  • They Offer Greater Autonomy

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Components of Social Class
  • Displaying Prestige
  • Status Inconsistency

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Sociological Models of Social Class
  • Updating Marx
  • Capitalists
  • Petty Bourgeoisie
  • Managers
  • Workers

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Sociological Models of Social Class
  • Updating Weber
  • Capitalist Class
  • The Upper Middle Class
  • The Lower Middle Class
  • The Working Class
  • The Working Poor
  • The Underclass
  • Social Class in the Automobile Industry

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Consequences of Social Class
  • Family Life
  • Choice of Husband or Wife
  • Divorce
  • Education
  • Religion

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Consequences of Social Class
  • Politics
  • Physical Health
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Illness and Inequality in Health Care

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Social Mobility
  • Three Types of Social Mobility
  • Upward
  • Downward
  • Exchange

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Social Mobility
  • Women and Social Mobility
  • New Technology and Fears of the Future

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Poverty
  • Who are Poor?
  • Geography
  • Race-Ethnicity
  • Education

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Poverty
  • Who are Poor?
  • Feminization of Poverty
  • Old Age
  • Children of Poverty

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Dynamics of Poverty
  • Culture of Poverty
  • Most Poverty is Short-lived
  • Number of Poor Relatively Stable

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Poverty
  • Welfare Reform
  • Welfare Restructured in 1996
  • Conflict Theorists Take on Welfare

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Why are People Poor?
  • Social Structure
  • Features of Society
  • Characteristics of Individuals

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Poverty
  • Where is Horatio Alger?
  • Social Functions of a Myth
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