SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Oscar Lewis, Corporate Welfare, Meritocracy
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Open stratification system- a system that is based on individual achievement and allows movement up and down: social mobility can be influenced by social stratifications, upward, downward, intragenerational (within our lifetime), intergenerational (from one generation to another) Social inequality -measured by distribution of income and wealth. In 1990, ceos made 96 times as much; in 2000, Underclass- people who are persistently poor and seldom unemployed, residentially segregated, and relatively isolated from the rest of the population. Social mobility- a person"s ability to move up or down the social class hierarchy. Horizontal mobility- moving from one position to another at the same class level. Vertical mobility- moving up or down the class hierarchy. Intragenerational mobility- moving up or down the class hierarchy over one"s lifetime. Xviii. intergenerational mobility- moving up or down the class hierarchy relative to the position of one"s parents.
