Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is division of labor?
What is exploitation?
What are life chances?
What is social capital?
What is class identity?
What is the Gini index?
What is the poverty line?
What is social mobility?
Using the issue of the division of labor explain how the functionalist and conflict theorists differ on the topic of social class and families
What is social class defined by Pierre Bourdieu? How does social capital distinguish poor families from wealthy families?
How do marriage, social networks and inherited wealth allow families to maintain or improve their social class position across generations? Why is this a disadvantage to American working class families?
Is inequality increasing in the United States? What evidence might you use to support your argument?
Why has poverty decreased since 2011?
What are some of the social programs and policies enacted by U.S lawmakers to help impoverished families?
What is the relationship between family structure and social mobility?
What is educational inequality? Why do students with wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds succeed in school at higher rates than children from less wealthy families?
What does class identity tell us about families that income does not?
