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Title: Social%20Structure


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Social Structure
  • Capitalism
  • the means of production (land, money, equipment)
    are privately owned
  • Corporate capitalism
  • the economy is dominated by large, powerful
    corporations

2
  • many workers are employed by corporations
  • no such thing as a job for life

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Social Inequality
5
Poverty
  • 13 of families in USA below the poverty line
    (1999)
  • many are African-American, Hispanic, or Native
    American

6
Social Classes
  • Upper class
  • inherited wealth, or
  • successful business owners or managers
  • Middle class
  • white collar workers (educated professionals)
  • Lower class (working class)
  • blue collar workers (manual labour)

7
Middle Class
  • more that 50 of Americans
  • mainstream America
  • largest consumer group
  • largest voting group

8
Class in Britain
  • a long history of class
  • aristocratic families
  • a strong awareness of class

9
Class in USA
  • most immigrants were poor
  • belief that anyone can be successful
  • belief that class doesnt exist
  • but it does!

10
Class in Australia
  • similar to USA
  • the Aussie battler (respect for the working
    class)

11
Family
  • basic social unit nuclear family (parents and
    children)
  • can easily move (to find work)

12
Moving Out
  • many people want to leave home as soon as they
    can afford to
  • in America it is common for students to study at
    a college in a different city

13
Households
  • nuclear family
  • extended family
  • young couple
  • older couple (children grown up)
  • single
  • shared
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