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Social Class in the United States Slide 2 What is Social Class? Property Distinction Between Wealth and Income Distribution of Property Distribution of Income Power Democratic Faade Power Elite Govt Makes no Decisions without Power Elite? 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 3 What is Social Class? 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Occupations and Prestige - They Pay More - They Require More Education - They Entail More Abstract Thought - They Offer Greater Autonomy Slide 4 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Distribution of the Property of Americans Slide 5 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Distribution of the Income of Americans Slide 6 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Dividing the Nations Income Slide 7 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Marxs Model of the Social Classes Slide 11 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 12 Sociological Models of Social Class Updating Max Weber Capitalist Class The Upper Middle Class The Lower Middle Class The Working Class The Working Poor The Underclass 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 13 The U.S. Social Class Ladder Slide 14 Consequences of Social Class Physical Health Mental Health Family Life Choices of Husbands and Wives Divorce Child Rearing 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 15 Consequences of Social Class Education Religion Politics Crime and the Judicial System 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 16 Social Mobility Upward Downward Structural Exchange Women and Social Mobility Interpreting Statistics on Social Mobility The Pain of Social Mobility 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 17 Patterns of Poverty Slide 18 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. RaceEthnicity and U.S. Poverty Slide 19 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Who Ends Up Poor? Poverty by Education and Race-Ethnicity Slide 20 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Births to Single Mothers Slide 21 Poverty Drawing the Poverty Line Official Measure Inadequate Line Arbitrary Children of Poverty Slide 22 Poverty Who Are the Poor? The Geography of Poverty RaceEthnicity Education The Feminization of Poverty Old Age 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 23 Myths About the Poor Most are Lazy Poor are Trapped and Few Escape More Rural than Urban Most Poor are African-Americans Most are Single Mothers and Children Most Live in Inner City Most are on Welfare 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 24 Dynamics of Poverty Culture of Poverty Most Poverty is Short-lived Culture of Poverty Most Poverty is Short-lived Number of Poor Relatively Stable 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 25 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. How Long Does Poverty Last? Slide 26 Why are People Poor? Social Structure Features of society deny some people access to education or training in job skills Characteristics of individuals Poverty triggers 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 27 Poverty Welfare Reform Welfare Restructured in 1996 The Conflict View Deferred Gratification Where is Horatio Alger? Social Functions of a Myth 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 28