LA 1203 Chapter : PATELKin 4520 Poster Draft
Document Summary
Good thing: work hard to be @ top. Class consciousness: awareness among members of a society that the society is stratified. Closed system: a system of stratification in which there is no movement from one rank to another. Cultural capital: values, attitudes, and knowledge provided by parents to help us succeed in society. Origins of family, private property, and states. - not everything used to be private, it was shared. Social class: category of people who have the same amount of power and wealth and same life chances to acquire wealth. Demand(importance) and supply(replaceable)- more difficult the job, the higher they have to be paid. Poverty in us= 15% been increasing, louisiana is 21%- #1 in us. Historical pattern children are living in poverty due to single mom household 31%/1/3. Social mobility: closed/open systems of strat: caste, apartheid, slavery. Occupational structure has gone up- have a freedom to do whatever.
