Rural Soc
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ronman0022 on November 14, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Social Classes | Upper crust beltway bloomers new homesteaders blue highways multi-culti mosaic low rise living |
| upper crust | over 200,000 wealthiest lifestyle in america over 55 yrs old |
| beltway bloomers | 40's and 50's post war baby boomers college educated upper middle class kid centered |
| new homesteaders | young/middle class white collar comfortable,child centered |
| blue highways | lower middle class live in isolates tows and farmsteads men enjoy hunting and fishing love country music women enjoy sewing and crafts |
| multi-culti-mosaic | 1/4 and foreign born 1st generation americans very diverse |
| low rise living | economically challenged young diverse single parents |
| stratification | the process by which positions( status) in a society are arranged from layers from top to bottom with inequality |
| types of stratification | slavery, castes, social class |
| things that determine social class | wealth, income, who you know (relationship to power) |
| upper class/capitalist (1-2%) | old money= top half new money=bottom half top executives heirs to large estates |
| upper middle class | post graduate education professionals and managers conspicuous consumption (show off money) |
| lower middle class | high school/ undergraduate college mainstream america more susceptible to economic dislocation (job loss) |
| working class | unskilled blue and white collar workers high school |
| lower class/ under class | mobility based poverty "survival mode" |
| number of farms | decreased over the decades 6.4 to 2.2 million |
| farm | any place with sales ≥1000$ G.P |
| number of people fed by a farm | increased |
| agriculture | decrease as society moves to Info Tech |
| amount of farming | unchanged, remains 41% |
| amount of farms family owned | 90% |
| growing concentrations | increase percentage of food provided by smaller number of farms |
| impact of concentration on rural | loss of pop loss of business decrease of property tax base increase consolidation of rural community |
| demographics of farmers | OLD 55.3 = avg |
| connection to agri | increasingly remote for most americans |
| counter-reaction to trends in Agri | alternative agriculture community food groups/gardens fresh food markets |
| differential association | people we associate with |
| differential opportunity | where we live/grow up |
| strain | taught goals but denied opportunities |
| characteristics | pop turnover poverty drug production proximity to urban areas |
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