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a condition resulting from status inconsistency |
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| the assumption that values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics on to their children. |
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Downward social mobility:
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Movement down the social class latter
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About the same number of people moving up and down the social class latter, such that, on balance, the social class system shows little change
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The feminization of property;
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A trend in US property whereby most poor families are headed by women
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The belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough
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Intergenerational mobility;
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The change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next
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The official measure of poverty; calculated to include those whose income of less than three times a low-cost food budget
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The ability to carry out your will, even over the resistance of others
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C. Wight Mills's term for the top people in US corporations, military, and politics to make the nations major decisions
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A person's total wealth minus their debt; can be buildings, land, animals, machinery, cars, stocks, bonds, businesses, furniture, bank accounts, etc.
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According to Weber, a large number of people who rank close to one another in wealth, power, and prestige; according to Marx, one of two groups; capitalists who own the means of production or workers to sell their labor
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Social ranking; the position that someone occupies in society or a social group
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People ranking high or low on all three dimensions of social class
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Ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others
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Movement up or down the social class latter that is due to changes in the structure of society, not to the individual efforts
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the group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations
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Movement of social class later
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the assumption that values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics on to their children.
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