SOCI 1010 1nd Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture I. What is Social Class?a. The Big DealII. Dimensions of ClassIII. Class StructureOutline of Current LectureI. Dimensions of Class ExpandedII. MediaIII. Myths from the mediaCurrent LectureI. Dimensions of Class Expanded:a. Income: money that comes in or is earned within a yeari. Salaries ii. Wagesiii. Child supportiv. Retirementv. Disabilityb. Wealth: more uneven than income i. Accumulates over generationsc. Occupational Prestige: people more willing to share what they do. Based on theirstatus, actual scales on prestige of jobi. An occupation may be high in prestige but low in incomed. Education: degrees earned not years of educationi. In 2013 88% had HS degrees or GED and only 32% had 4 year college degree or moree. Power: ability to be able to influence someone’s behaviori. Getting someone to do something they wouldn’t normally doThese 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.II. Media:a. Argument is that the media disguises inequality on purpose to keep the status-quo. b. The media is typically run by the upper class. They focus on poverty as a statistic, not on the actual stories. We, the public, become desensitized to poverty because we simply think of it as a number.III. Myths from the Media:a. People in poverty or the working poor class are there because of their own faultsb. When poverty is talking about, we focus on the problems it will/may create for the middle classc. The poor are painted in a negative light whereas if a wealthy person does the same thing, we view it as a “mistake” or a rareityi. Ex. If Lindsay Lohan steals and does drugs, we say she is going through a wild phase and has made mistakesii. If someone in poverty steals or does drugs we label them as a bad person who does so because they are in poverty or poord. The media paints poverty as a temporary
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