SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Minority Group, Social Mobility, The American Economic Review

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Snyder, Jennifer

Document Summary

Intergenerational: change in social class between generations: structural: change classes due to changes in the structure of society. Individual discrimination: discrimination from one person to another. Institutional discrimination: discrimination that is built into society"s institutions (e. g. legalized discrimination); also called systemic discrimination. Isms : racism: prejudice or discrimination based on race, sexism: prejudice or discrimination based on sexism, classism/elitism: prejudice or discrimination based on class. Defining class, race, and gender: social class in the u. s (influenced by education, occupation, income, capitalist, upper middle, lower middle, working, working poor, underclass (majority fall into the center categories) Defining class, race, and gender: race/ethnicity, the relationship between race and ethnicity is messy, but we do attempt to keep them distinct for analytical purposes. In higher ed (national center for education statistics) we ask a two part question for u. s. citizens: hispanic or latino, select 1 or more: american indian or alaska native; asian; black or african.