SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Economic Mobility, Upper Middle Class, East Los Angeles College
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Myth that we live in a classless society. Social class stratification: the hierarchical classification of groups into different groups based on social class, leading to greater status, power or privilege for some groups over the others. Social class: a category of people who share similar opportunities, similar economic and vocational positions, similar lifestyles, and similar attitudes and behaviors. In usa, class stratification is broadly organized into three main social class (quintile measurement) Myth 1: people are poor because they are too lazy to work. Over of poor are not of working age. About 34% are younger than 24; another 10% are older than 65. Most of the able-bodied poor of working age are working or looking for work. A person working for 40 hours a week, every week of the year at min. Wage will not earn enough to lift a family of three out of poverty. /week * 52 weeks in a year.
