SOC 100 Lecture 11: Lecture 11 Notes
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Today : introduction, the working poor, the upper class, class and parenting. Identity and inequality: race and ethnicity, social class, gender. Your perception of class is affected by your own class, political views, education: the perception of class and inequality can affect one"s perception of race & ethnicity and gender. Working class: those employed in skilled and semi-skilled manual labor occupations, especially industrial manufacturing: defined by one"s occupation, idea traced back to marx & engels proletariat, stability of the working class is bolstered by unionism. Facilitators of working poor: deindustrialization lost a lot of working class jobs shrinking working class. Downward social mobility: dismantling of welfare programs. Welfare reform act (1996): tried to push people from welfare to work force. Forced people into working poor jobs (single mother hit hardest) There are many reasons why people have part-time jobs instead of full- time jobs. Can"t get the hours (employer would have to give benefits)
