class and inequality

1. Class

1.1. A system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society resources

2. economic capital

2.1. income: what people earn from work plus dividends/interest from investments, along with rents and royalties

2.2. income patterns reveal how power is distributed

2.3. wealth: the total value of what someone owns, minus any debt

3. social capital

3.1. social network that helps you advance your social status access to resources

4. proletariat

4.1. Marxist term for the class of laborers who own only their labor

4.2. the working class

5. social reproduction vs class moblitity

5.1. social and class relations of prestige or lack of prestige are passed from one generation to the next

5.2. rather than providing opportunities for social class mobility, the educational system helped reproduce the social relations that already exist by passing class position from generation to generation

6. habitus

6.1. dispositions taught and learned through family, education, and the media

6.2. Enculturation

6.3. * life decisions are made on the basis of the families habits

6.4. college education or career

7. Egalitarian society

7.1. a group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence

7.2. *hunter/gatherer societies- their society relied on cooperation and the sharing of food and child-rearing, not hierarchy, violence, and aggression

8. means of production

8.1. factories, machines, raw materials, tool, land, and financial capital needed to make things

9. caste system

9.1. class structure determined by birth

10. Max Weber

10.1. prestige reputation, influenced nd deference bestowed on certain people because of their membership in certain groups

10.2. life chances: as individuals opportunities to improve quality of life and achieve goals

10.3. life chances are determined by financial resources and social resources ( education, health care, food, clothing, shelter)

10.4. class position- relative wealth, power, and prestige- determines access to resources

11. meritocracy

11.1. meritocracy education: students are deemed successful on the basis of their individual talent and motivation

11.2. provides all students with equal opportunities

11.3. social mobility is dependent on ones meritocracy

12. ideology

12.1. a system of ideas ( a mental map of reality) that injustices the status quo: inequality

13. life chances

13.1. as individuals opportunities to improve quality of life and achieve goals

13.2. *life chances are determined by financial resources and social resources

13.3. education

13.4. health care

13.5. food

13.6. clothing

13.7. shelter

14. Inequality

14.1. unequal access to wealth, power, resources , privileges, and status

15. cultural capital

15.1. knowledge, habit, and tastes learned form family that individuals can use to gain access to social resources

15.2. ex: family wealth creates cultural capital for children (they can travel abroad, learn much more than an average person)

16. wealth vs income

16.1. wealth is what you already have/own and income is what people earn from working

17. bourgeoisie

17.1. marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production like: factories , machines, tools, raw materials, land, and financial capital needed to make things

18. social mobility

18.1. movement of ones class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies

19. ranked society

19.1. a group which wealth is not arranged but prestige and status are * positions of high prestige such a a chief are largely hereditary

20. intersectionality

20.1. analytic framework for assessing how factors such as race, gender, and class interact to shape individuals life chances and societal patterns of stratification

21. class stratification

21.1. unequal distribution of power and access to a groups resources, opportunities, rights and privileges based on class

22. Karl Marx

22.1. *capitalist system

22.2. workers sell labor to capitalists in exchange for money

22.3. Bourgeoisie

22.4. proletariat

23. pierre Bourdieu

23.1. * social mobility: the movement of ones class position

23.2. *social reproduction

23.3. habitus

23.4. cultural capital

24. myth of classes society

24.1. *upward social mobility for those who are hardworking and talented, including the potential to rise from rags to riches in a single generation

24.2. * the main determinate of class position and social mobility s NOT one worth ethic but rather structural barriers( no matter how hard you work you have to have connections

25. culture of poverty

25.1. * urban poverty: result in welfare dependency, of lack of motivation, and poor work ethic