Chapter 7 (revised)
caste system
class system
Karl Marx
bourgeoisie
proletariat
surplus value
Max Weber: status, class, power
Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore
From 1977 to 2016, the richest 20 percent saw its income rise ______, while the poorest 20 percent saw its income rise by ______.
wealth
income
social class and educational attainment
occupational prestige
social class
upper class
super-rich
“old money,” “new wealth”
lower middle class
working class
economic globalization
lower class
underclass
gap between rich and poor in the United States
Latino household income
social mobility
intergenerational mobility
intragenerational mobility
Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan
William Sewell and Robert Hauser
Pierre Bourdieu
cultural capital
downward mobility
relative poverty
absolute poverty
poverty line
feminization of poverty
rates of child poverty
elderly people, poverty
Social Security
poverty, structural factors
culture of poverty
social exclusion
economic recession that began in 2008