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TAMU SOCI 205 - Social Mobility
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SOCI 205 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture II. Theories of StratificationOutline of Current Lecture II. Social MobilityIII. InequalityIV. Discussion on RankCurrent LectureII. Social Mobilitya. Movement of individuals or groups between different social positions i. Conflict perspective much more likely to say that ascription is likely to impact the limit of mobility b. Intergenerational Mobility: mobility between parents and children (usually father-son; compares father’s job to son’s first job)i. Issacs Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America text1. Gives a sense of how people are doing over long periods of times; also allows access to how parents are doing compared to their childrenii. Do children in America advance beyond their parents in terms of family income? Yes, 2/3rds of kids are doing better than their parentsiii. Look at Figure 4 (shows the relationships between the quintile and the outcome of the children from that quintile). Do children from different family backgrounds (socioeconomic status) have an equal shot at rising in society? Children in top percentile are doing the best as far as surpassing their parents 1. Functionalists would focus on the bottom quintile percentage of children that got out of the lowest income and the ones that remain the same  some will move ahead, others will stay the same, and some will fall behindiv. If wages have been flat for most workers (since the 1970s) how is it that families to seem to be doing so much better? There are more women in These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.the workforce – two people attributing to income. Also families are smaller, so expenses are decreasing.v. According to figure 4, does every kid have an equal chance of getting ahead in the US? No, it is more likely that an individual will stay in their quintile. The only exception could be the middle quintile. III. Inequalitya. Classes in Western Society Todayi. Class difference based on:1. Incomea. Payment, usually derived from wages, salaries, or investmentsb. Unequal distribution of income among class groups c. CBO (Congressional Budget Office) Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007i. Trend is generally decreasing until you get to the highest quintile where the gain is much larger than that of the lower quintiles 2. Wealtha. Assets: cash, savings, and investmentsb. Inequality by wealth is greater than inequality by incomec. Can be seen by net worth (25-50% percentile of net worth:probably people who own homes)IV. Discussion on Rank Readinga. What is Rank’s argument?b. What dose the research from several longitudinal studies demonstrate about the length of time that people are poor?c. Why is the risk of poverty so high in the


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