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Social Class & Stratification: Boston, Massachusetts
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Defining Terms
- Social stratification: shaped by wealth, income, and education.
- Wealth, income, and education lead to structural inequality.
- Structural inequality is based on social class, gender, and race.
Time Machine: 1957
Boston IS Expensive
Affordable Housing: Boston
The Seaport District
How do social class and stratification impact Boston, Massachusetts?
Two Articles
- What So Many People Don't Get About the U.S. Working Class
- How America Manufactures Poverty
What Do You Know About Social Class in the United States?
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What So Many People Don't Get About the U.S. Working Class (Joan C. Williams)
"He tried to open several businesses on the side but none worked, so he kept that job for 38 years. He rose from poverty to a middle-class life: the car, the house,two kids in Catholic school, the wife who worked only part-time. He worked incessantly. He had two jobs in addition to his full-time position, one doing yard work for a local magnate and another hauling trash to the dump" (1).
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