SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Annette Lareau, Eyesore, Working Poor
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Upper-upper class: old money, inheritance, family name (0. 5%) Lower-upper class: made their own money, extremely wealthy but didn"t come into it (0. 5%) Upper-middle class: highly educated professionals, authority jobs, high income, management jobs (14%) Middle class: fair amount of educational professional or semi-professional (nurses, middle mgmt. ) (30%) Working: high school education, semi-skilled jobs, training (30%) Working poor: low status, unskilled jobs, unstable jobs, wages at or barely above poverty wages, possibly high school ed. or ged (bus boy, waiter (20%) Under class: lower poverty lines, unemployment, low education (5%) Media magic by mantsios: what messages does the news media send about class. The wealthy: are potentially us only address wealthy in news, do not exist (as a class, fascinating and benevolent source of entertainment, include a few bad apples they"re exception. The middle class: is us blurs lines between working and middle class, is a victim cost of poverty is born by middle class, is not a working class.
