Exam 4: Foundation for Social Inequality: Concepts and Structures

The measure of a child's class location and that of a parent's class location is called intergenerational mobility.

Most Americans in the U.S. believe in and expect to become upwardly mobile.

Wealth refers to all except for which of the following?

Distinguish between the following classes: working class, working poor, and underclass. How does the American ideology promote the idea of social mobility thus making people responsible for falling into the above three classes?

A political action committee (PAC) is a private fund-raising group usually affiliated with a corporation, labor union, or citizen group.

Prospects for upward mobility have become more common in the U.S. than in many other countries.

Americans overwhelmingly support liberal socialism.

Equality of opportunity is a situation where people have