SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Laziness
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Chapter 8: social class & social stratification: definition of middle class (education income, values, expectations, aspiration) Income: 2/3 of two times the median income in the us. The federal poverty level for individual living is now. Education: disconnection between higher education and middle class jobs: the impacts on american society of decline of the middle class. Ability to purchase goes down, and driving force for business declines (losing jobs) Tax goes down, and fix a budget short by spending less (losing jobs) Housing price goes down: loss of net wealth. When middle class loses ground, american society loses ground (values; lazy v. hard-working; norms; entitlement v. responsibility, expectations, aspirations) Government lost ability to deal with important problems; conflicts cause polarization: recent political debate has been dominated by 1 issue: Inequality is increasing in developing countries (usa, ger, fre) Expanding equality of opportunity has significantly increased economic inequality.
