Social Class & Stratisfication
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Open Systems | Societies where people can change their place in the class system "Class System" Ex. US Work hard-move up the ladder |
| Closed Systems | Societies where people cannot change their place in the class system "Caste System" Ex. India |
| Economic Determinism | Belief that economics are the most important thing (review from Marx) |
| Wealth | Money or worth you have accumulated Savings, stocks, value of house |
| Importance of Wealth | Makes income less important |
| Wealth Inequality | America has much of Most of us believe there is less wealth inequality than they perceive and wish for even less |
| Determining Social Class | U.S. has no criteria for telling if someone is "middle class" "upper class" or "working class" |
| U.S. Poverty Line | The one measurement the U.S. government does not use Based on research in early 1960s = minimum annual food budget x 3 |
| Low-income | Often means U.S. poverty line x 2 |
| Extreme Poverty | 1/2 of U.S. Poverty Line Linked to illness in kids, low attendance in schools |
| Three Dimensional Measure of Social Class | Max Weber Class Power Prestige |
| Class | Economic measures |
| Power | Ability to exert your will over others |
| Prestige | Respect in a community |
| Objective Method | Determining social class through statistical categories, based on some measurable trait like income |
| Self-placement Method | Has people identify their own social class |
| Reputational Method | Ask others to rank you |
| Race | A group of people who see themselves, and are seen by others, as having heredity traits that set them apart--a social construction, not a biological phenomenon |
| Ethnicity | A group of people who see themselves, and are seen by others, has having cultural traits that set them apart |
| Sex | Refers to biological characteristics such as genetics and biological physical characteristics |
| Gender | Social differences between gender groups, socially constructed, changes between cultures and across time in the same cultures |
| Gender Roles | Sets of cultural expectations that define the ways that gender groups should behave |
| Individual Sexism | When a person or people believe that one sex or gender is superior to another |
| Institutional Sexism | When policies, procedures and practices are in place that create unequal outcomes for different gender groups |
| Patriarchy | A system of institutional sexism that gives men a disproportionate share of power |
| Wage Gap | In any given year, women make about 78% of what men do |
| Cultural Silence | Rules against even talking about wages |
| Occupational Tracking | Women are found more often in jobs that are lower paying than men |
| Glass Ceiling | When there is an invisible barrier that keeps women out of the upmost leadership roles |
| Sticky Floor | When women are stuck in the lowest levels of employment in a company |
| Glass Escalator | An invisible social mechanism that pushes men into more prestigious, powerful leadership roles |
| Glass Walls | Prevent horizontal movement, first job you get determines how high you can get |
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