Warm Up: 10/28  Analyze the cartoon. What is the message of the cartoon?

Objective and DOL  SWBAT Explain the difference between absolute and relative measures of poverty.  Write a paragraph describing the life of someone in relative poverty in America.  Write a paragraph explaining the life of someone in absolute poverty. ObjectiveDOL

Video: Poverty in America  Make a T chart to complete as you watch this video:  What do you notice the people in the video do NOT have?  What do you notice they DO have?

World wide poverty  (Start at 2 minutes)  This video is of South Africa, the weathiest nation in Africa.  Make a similar T chart to complete as you watch this video.

Comparison  How does your idea and definition of poverty change? Which version of poverty do you think of when you hear the word poverty?  Absolute poverty: the absence of enough money to secure life’s necessities  What would you consider “necessities”?  Food, safe place to live, etc.  Relative poverty: a measure of poverty based on the difference b/t those at the bottom of society and the rest of society

SpongeBob helps explain it…

Race and Poverty  Review: What do you recall about the relationship between race and poverty?  Stats:  Poverty rate for whites: 7.5%  “ for A.A. and latinos: 23% These groups are ¼ of total population but ½ of poor population

Gender and Poverty  Nearly ½ of poor households are headed by females as opposed to 14% of nonpoor households  Poverty rate of female headed households is 25% vs 10% for all families.  Feminization of poverty- trend in US society in which women and children make up an increasing proportion of the poor  Why do you think this is?

Age and Poverty  22% of children under 6 are in poverty  9% of people 65 or older live in poverty  12% of the poor population have disabilities  Do these statistics surprise you? Why or why not?

Homework:  Read section 8.5 on social mobility. We will review this quickly tomorrow and then head to the lab for an activity regarding this. You will be responsible for this knowledge on the test, and I will check notes.

DOL  Explain the difference between absolute and relative measures of poverty. Use examples to justify your answer.

Social Mobility?  0-5 on your hand.  What is social mobility?  Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups between social classes.

Critical Thinking  Do you think that a person’s name has an eventual impact on their position or class in society?  Does a person’s name impact their eventual earnings or possibility of social mobility?  Think about White people, Black people, and Hispanic people – what names do you associate with each group?  ARDE ARDE  Take aways?

Write down 1 interesting fact from the video.

Critical Thinking  Do you agree with the findings put forth in these videos about the correlation between names and social status?  Do you think it is less likely that a person with a unique name is capable of social mobility? Explain your answer.

Types of Social Mobility  Horizontal Mobility:  Changing form one occupation to another within the same social class level.  Ex. Army captain becomes a public school teacher.  Vertical Mobility:  When a person’s occupational status or social class moves upward or downward.  When this change takes place over a generation it is called intergenerational mobility.  Ex. A plumber’s daughter becomes a doctor. A lawyer’s son becomes a carpenter.

Caste System  caste system- a social stratification structure that does not allow for social mobility.  Social status is inherited and cannot be changed.  Statuses, including occupations, are assigned at birth and cannot be changed.  Ex. Apartheid in South Africa was a caste system based on race.  Ex. Indian Hindu Caste system.  Caste systems are maintained through the power of the higher classes.

video  What are the benefits / detriments to this system?

Open-Class System  An open-class system is a system in which social class is based on merit and individual effort – movement is allowed between classes.  Individuals move up and down the stratification structure as their abilities, education, and resources permit.  Most people in the U.S. believe they live in an open-class system.  CFU: Do you think the U.S. has an open class system?

Upward and Downward Mobility  Few places in the world offer the opportunities for advancement that are available in the United States yet few people actually achieve it.  After WWII, high-paying manufacturing jobs made it relatively easy for people to move upward.  Americans came to expect that this would always be the case.  Globalization and outsourcing in today’s world has made upward mobility much more difficult to achieve.  GO TO COLLEGE!

Test Prep  Tomorrow we will be taking a test over social stratification.  Complete the following sections of the Chapter 8 Review on pg  Reviewing Vocabulary  Reviewing the Facts  Thinking Critically

DOL  Given an exit card, SWBAT write 7-10 sentences describing the social mobility that has occurred in their family for the last two generations.  Has intergenerational mobility occurred? Explain your answer.