SOC 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Stratification, Death Of Eric Garner, Economic Integration
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First divide: dual- vs. single- earner households: % of single adult household doubled from 10% to >20% Due to educational homogamy, marriage has a multiplier effect: contribute to wage inequality. Well educated women & men tend to marry: greater than average earnings; lower risk of unemployment. Lower educated couples: lower income levels/more risk of unemployment. Between 1980 and 2000, income of university grads rising from 14-22%; in- come of high school grads was stagnant ~ multiply income gains by 2: real. Gains for highly educated couples, yet no gains for less educated: based on heterosexual couples. Cumulative effect: a long-term increase in family income inequality. Figure 22-1 income inequality among two-parent families with children ~ris- ing since 90s. A conservative estimate as unattached and single parent families are not in- cluded. 30 something"s today entering a world that is very different from those century ago: a new high inequality (go to chapter)
