1. Social Class in the United States
Chapter 8
Social Class in the United States

2. What is Social Class? Property Power
Distinction Between Wealth and Income
Distribution of Property
Distribution of Income
Power
“Democratic Façade”
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3. What is Social Class? Prestige Power Elite
Gov’t Makes no Decisions without Power Elite?
Prestige
Occupations and Prestige
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4. What is Social Class? Status Inconsistency Displaying Prestige
They Pay More
They Require More Education
They Entail More Abstract Thought
They Offer Greater Autonomy
Displaying Prestige
Status Inconsistency
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5. Distribution of the Property of Americans
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6. Distribution of the Income of Americans
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7. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Dividing the Nation’s Income
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11. Sociological Models of Social Class
Updating Weber
Capitalist Class
The Upper Middle Class
The Lower Middle Class
The Working Class
The Working Poor
The Underclass
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12. Marx’s Model of the Social Classes
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14. The U.S. Social Class Ladder
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15. Consequences of Social Class
Physical Health
Mental Health
Family Life
Choices of Husbands and Wives
Divorce
Child Rearing
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16. Consequences of Social Class
Education
Religion
Politics
Crime and the Judicial System
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17. Social Mobility Intergenerational Upward Downward Structural Exchange
Women and Social Mobility
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18. Poverty Who Are the Poor? The Geography of Poverty Race–Ethnicity
Education
The Feminization of Poverty
Old Age
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19. Patterns of Poverty
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20. Race-Ethnicity and U.S. Poverty
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21. Who Ends Up Poor? Poverty by Education and Race-Ethnicity
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22. Births to Single Mothers
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23. How Long Does Poverty Last?
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24. Why are People Poor? Social Structure Characteristics of individuals
Features of society deny some people access to education or training in job skills
Characteristics of individuals
Poverty triggers
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25. Welfare Reform Reforming Welfare The Conflict View
Where Is Horatio Alger? The Social Functions of a Myth
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