The Phrase referring to the increasing concentration of poverty among female-headed households.
Distribution of Income
The degree to which all earnings in the nation are concentrated.
Conflict theory (8)
An explanation that says social class arises and persists because those with more wealth and power use their means to enhance their own position at the expense of others.
Upper-Middle Class
A U.S. Social Class characterized by professional and technical occupations and college and graduate school training.
Poverty Index
The U.S. government's specification of income levels below which people are considered to be living in poverty.
Distribution of Wealth
The degree of concentration or spreading out of property and other financial assets.
Poverty
The condition of which people do not have enough money to maintain a standard of living that includes the basic necessities of life.
Lower Class
A U.S. Social class characterized by unskilled labor, little interest in education, grade school completion, service work and farm labor.
Working Class
A U.S. Social Class made up of skilled and semiskilled laborers.
Social Class
A Category of people who share similar opportunities, similar economic and vocational positions, lifestyles, and similar attitudes and behaviors.
Class system of stratification
A system of stratification that includes several different social classes and permits social mobility.
Functionalist Theory
An explanation for the existence of social classes based on the idea that in order to attract talented individuals to each occupation, society must set up a system of differential rewards.
Upper Class
A U.S. social class characterized by coporate ownership, elite schools, upper-echelon politics, and a higher education.
The developement and coexistence of separate racial and ethnic group identities within a society.
Expulsion
The Process of forcing a group to leave the territory in which it lives.
Americanization Movement
A social movement advocating the complete assimilation of immigrant groups to the United States.
Discrimination
Differential treatment, usually unequal and injurious, accorded to individuals who are assumed to belong to a particular category or group.
Prejudice
An irritionally based negative, or occasionally positive, attitude toward certain groups and their members.
Assimilation
The process whereby groups with different cultures come to share a common culture.
Anglo Conformity
The renunciation of other ancestral cultures in favor of Anglo-American behavior and values.
Subjugation
The domination of one group by another.
Segregation
The act, process, or state of being set apart.
Minority Group
A group of people who, because of physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.
Ethnic Group
A group with a distinct cultural tradition with which its own members identify and that may or may not be recognized by others.
Race
A category of people who are defined as similiar because of a number of physical characteristics.
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