sociology chapter 7: The Structure of Inequality

Redlining

keeps low-income people from acquiring assets (such as real estate) that might allow them to rise out of poverty and move to a more affluent neighborhood.

Which of the following terms represent measurements of intragenerational mobility?

vertical social mobility horizontal social mobility

Identify the true and false statements about the wealth gap in the United States

The super-rich are super-consumers. When comparing 2007 income with 2017 income, those in the top income groups have exceeded the income growth rates of those in other groups by hundreds of percentage points.

Place each demographic category in order from most to least likely to believe in the American Dream.

college grads, hispanics, high school grads, blacks

Why does the ideology of equal opportunity resonate with most Americans?

We live in a bourgeois society, in which the maximization of profit is the primary business incentive. Americans tend to believe that unequal opportunities restrict meritocracy.

examples of therapeutic policing

arresting a homeless person for jaywalking ticketing a homeless person for loitering shutting down a weight-lifting program for homeless people

includes writers and artists

creative class

often comprised of individuals in the upper-middle class

creative class

French sociologist and postmodernist Pierre Bourdieu suggested that social reproduction, or the tendency of social classes remaining relatively stable as class status is passed down from one generation to the next, occurs in part through the acquisition of what?

cultural capital

includes contract labor, temporary work, or part-time work

precarious labor

includes individuals whose work doesn't make full use of their skills

underemployed

Workers in the lower-middle and lower class often find themselves engaged in this

underemployment and precarious labor