RS1000

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RS1000

• Class Business
• Topics of Discussion
• WASPS Tammys Story
• Types of Social Mobility
• Conflict Theory and Social Class
• Functionalist Theory and Social Class

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• Video
• Discuss WASP Class and culture. How does this
  group maintain its boundaries?
• Do you believe that Matt will get to go to
  college? Why?

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Movement in Class Systems
Term
Definition
Social Mobility
Movement From One Social Class to Another
Vertical Mobility
A Change in Class Status That Corresponds to a
Gain or Loss in Rank or Prestige
Downward Mobility
A Change in Social Class That Corresponds to a
Loss of Rank
Upward Mobility
A Change in Social Class That Corresponds to a
Gain of Rank
Intragenerational Mobility
Vertical Movement During an Individuals Lifetime
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Weber and Social Class
Social Class Derived From Marketable Abilities,
Access to Consumer Goods and Services, Control
Over the Means of Production, Ability to Invest
in Property
Negatively Privileged Property Class
Positively Privileged Property Class
Complicating Factor
Complicating Factor
Status Group
Political Parties
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Negatively Privileged Property Class

• Persons completely unskilled, lacking property,
  and dependent on seasonal or sporadic employment
  who constitute the very bottom of the class
  system.

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Positively Privileged Social Class

• Those individuals at the very top of the class
  system

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Status Group

• An amorphous group of persons held together by
  virtue of a lifestyle that has come to be
  expected of all those who wish to belong to the
  circle.

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A Contemporary View of the American Class
Structure(Gilbert 2003)
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US Hunger FactsSource Bread for the World
Institute www.bread.org

• 35.1 million peopleincluding 12.4 million
  childrenlive in households that experience
  hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents
  more than one in ten households in the United
  States (11.0 percent).
• 3.9 percent of U.S. households experience hunger.
  Some people in these households frequently skip
  meals or eat too little, sometimes going without
  food for a whole day. 10.8 million people,
  including 606 thousand children, live in these
  homes.

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US Hunger FactsSource www.bread.orgBread for
the World Institute

• 7.1 percent of U.S. households are at risk of
  hunger. Members of these households have lower
  quality diets or must resort to seeking emergency
  food because they cannot always afford the food
  they need. 24.4 million people, including 11.8
  million children, live in these homes.
• Research shows that preschool and school-aged
  children who experience severe hunger have higher
  levels of chronic illness, anxiety and
  depression, and behavior problems than children
  with no hunger.

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US Hunger FactsSource Bread for the World
Institute www.bread.org 2007 Hunger Report Page
158
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Food Deserts are
Places where simply trying to find healthy food
at affordable prices is a tremendous challenge.
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Where are the Food Deserts?
By region, the West experiences the highest level
of inaccessibility, with the Midwest, South, and
Northeast following in that order.
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Where are Food Deserts?
Among nonmetropolitan counties, those with less
than 2,500 persons, regardless of the region,
have the highest proportion of people with low
access to large food retailers