Class Chapter 9

Question 1

Accomplished natural growth

Answer 1

Play working class

Question 2

Concerted cultivation of skills

Answer 2

Tutors, Monitored, Busy schedule

Question 3

Marx Social Class

Answer 3

Two classes of people- bourgeoisie meaning owners & proletariat meaning workers / working class is more educated = unions

Question 4

Weber Social Class

Answer 4

Stratification/ What you own shows power & prestige - property and wealth

Question 5

Wealth

Answer 5

value of financial assets such as savings real estate stocks minus debts

Question 6

Income

Answer 6

money received from sources such as wages salaries and

Question 7

Petite bourgeoisie

Answer 7

small business owners

Question 8

Socialism

Answer 8

ane economic arrangement in which the state owns the major means of production (unions)

Question 9

Marx Class Consciousness

Answer 9

need for political action for social change = revolt for change

Question 10

Marx False Consciousness

Answer 10

end capitalism - believe in “we” instead of I

Question 11

Middle class

Answer 11

hourly wages - blue collar

Question 12

Class mobility

Answer 12

ability to move from one social class to another

Question 13

Structural mobility

Answer 13

high paying jobs decline - laid off

Question 14

individual mobility

Answer 14

class position changes w/out any change in class structure - parents class to children

Question 15

Absolute Poverty

Answer 15

scarcity of resources so severe that it is life threatening

Question 16

Relative Poverty

Answer 16

lack of basic resources needed to maintain a standard of living considered acceptable in society

Question 17

Poverty line

Answer 17

cost of minimal food and multiply by 3

Question 18

Misconceptions of poverty

Answer 18

2/3 are white not black
children are more likely to be poor
people remain in poverty
people are poor bc unwilling to work

Question 19

Ideology - why inequality exists

Answer 19

Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed
Success is based on merit
People can be successful by being hard working

Question 20

Race to the bottom

Answer 20

poorer nations competing for foreign investment by sacrificing wages tax revenue

Question 21

World Systems

Answer 21

Core nations- wealthy
Periphery- poorest / powerful
Semi-peri middle income