SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Mobility, 2.-Class Torpedo Boat, Ascribed Status
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Exam 2 will cover chapters 6, 7, and 8, and all of the supplemental material (films, readings). Students should be able to apply the three main theories to each of the subject areas and be able to explain how race, ethnicity, and gender are socially constructed. Note that this list of terms is not exhaustive. It does not include the supplemental readings and films that were assigned. Children with poor parents end up with high-paying jobs (upward) intragenerational mobility vertical mobility within a person"s own lifetime: ex. start as assistant and work way up to upper-level manager (upward) 10. power elite political theory espoused by c. wright mills which holds that an elite of corporate leaders, top military officers, and key political leaders make most political decisions. 11. social class a category of people who have a similar standing or rank in a society based on wealth, edu, power, prestige, and other valued resources.
