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Social Structure in the USA
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Social Structure in the USA
presentation by none other than Berkan
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Capitalist class
-Ivy league education
-income $350,000 - $500,000
and more
-Top-level executives, celebrities,
powerful politicians
The 8 Elite Universities
-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,
Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale
The Middle
Upper Middle class
-Academic degree
-income ranging from high 5-figures to
above $100,000
-professional workers for example managers
The Middle
Lower Middle class
35%
30%
-mostly college education
-income $35,000 to $75,000
-white collar workers
|
40%|
|
10%
15%
The Poor
Working class
30%
|
40% |
|
10%
-high school education
-might have low job security
-income $16,000 to $30,000
-mostly blue collar workers
15%
-blue collar workers :
- manual labour such as manufacturing, mining, maintenance
-white collar workers :
- office jobs
- generally administrative work
-pink collar workers :
- service oriented jobs
- mostly done by female workers
-blue collar workers
Table of Contents
-classification of people according to :
-rising from one class to another is possible
- wealth
- income
- education
- type of occupation
- membership in a specific social network.
Definition of Social Structure
-Definition of Social Structure
-Subdivision into Classes
-The Poor
-The Middle
-The Rich
-class systems with six social classes proposed by :
three-class model
The Poor
Subdivision into Classes
- Dennis Gilbert
- William Thompson & Joseph Hickey
- Leonard Beeghley
Underclass
-Working poor class only in Gilberts model
15%
-some have high school education
-limited or no participation in the labor force
-income below the poverty line
-rely on government transfers
-people from the same social backgrounds act similar
----> social relationship patterns arise
-division of society into classes (based on their attributes)