SO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Capital, Parenting Styles, Social Mobility

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SO 101
• Professor: Tekisha D.Everette

Document Summary

Dimensions of social class: a period of time. Income: economic inequality is central to social stratification; earning over. Wealth: total net worth (total assets minus debt) Power: ability to control in the face of resistance. Prestige: symbolic dimensions of inequality and is linked to work. Ascribed traits: ancestry, race, ethnicity and gender. No direct measure of power; linked to income to wealth. Born into privilege or poverty affects schooling, occupation and income. Much wealth of richest us families is inherited. Inherited poverty shapes the future of tems and millions of people. Race is closely linked to social position. Disparity still exists on social and financial variables. More poor families are headed by women. On average women have less income, wealth and occupational. Upper class: around 5% population: historically wasps. Power is concentrated in the middle class. Working class around of population: 27,000 - 48,500. Lower class: 12. 5% of population less than 27,000.