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Chapter 8: Social Class in the United States
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- 1Social ClassAccording to Weber, a large group of people who rank close to one another in property, power and prestige; according to Marx, one of two groups: capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor.
- 2PropertyMaterial possessions: animals, bank accounts, bonds, buildings, businesses, cars, cash, commodities, copyrights, furniture, jewelry, land, and stocks.
- 3WealthThe total value of everything someone owns, minus the debts.
- 4IncomeMoney received, usually from a job, business, or assets.
- 5PowerThe ability to carry out your will, even over the resistance of others.
- 6Power EliteC. Wright Mills' term for the top people in U.S corporations, military, and politics who make the nation's major decisions.
- 7PrestigeRespect or regard
- 8Status ConsistencyRanking high or low on all three dimensions of social class.
- 9Status InconsistencyRanking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others; also called status discrepency.
- 10StatusThe position that someone occupies in a social group.
- 11AnomieDurkheim's term for a condition of society in which people become detached from the usual norms that guide their behavior.
- 12Contradictory Class LocationsErik Wright's term for a positions in the class structure that generates contradictory interests.
- 13UnderclassA group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations.
- 14Inter-generational MobilityThe change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next.
- 15Upward Social MobilityMovement up the social class ladder.
- 16Downward Social MobilityMovement down the social class ladder.
- 17Structural MobilityMovement up or down the social class ladder that is due more to changes in the structure of society than to the actions of individuals.
- 18Exchange MobilityA large number of people oving up the social class ladder, while a larger number move down; it is as though they have exchanged places, and the social class system shows little change.
- 19Poverty LineThe official measure of poverty; calculated to include incomes that are less than three times a low-cost food budget.
- 20Feminization of PovertyA condition of U.S poverty in which most poor families are headed by women.
- 21Culture of PovertyThe assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children.
- 22Deferred GratificationGoing without something in the present in the hopes of achieving greater gains in the future.
- 23Horatio Alger MythThe belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough.
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