SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Upper Class, Social Class, Intersectionality

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIO-120
• Professor: Brown

Document Summary

Amount of education, type of education, quality of education. If christian, classes tend to cluster into denominations. Lower middle & working class: baptist and other evangelical religions. Upper class tends to hold more power. Social class can mean better medical care and insurance. Lower class at a greater risk for detrimental outcomes of mental health; associated. Intra-generational mobility: your social class location is different later in your. Inter-generational mobility: your social class location is different than your adult life than earlier in your adult life. parents. Closely linked but two separate concepts: inequality- the gap between the most and the least, poverty- defining the bottom of the distribution. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. Two ways to measure poverty: subjective- feeling poor compared to others, objective- establishing a minimally acceptable level of income (poverty. Poverty threshold- original version of federal measures.