American Society: Test 2

• persists over generations
• involves inequality and beliefs

Composed of wealth and income, prestige and power

• defined class in terms of it relationship to production
• benefits of productivity goes to owners, leaving to worker's revolt

• our culture emphasizes individuality and  autonomy
• we tend to interact with people like ourselves

inequality is the result of exploitation of others by those with more resources

• less opportunites for those with little education
• global competition and rapid technological advances
• growing dependance on temporary workforce

higher income people are more likely to vote and join political organizations

• growth that occurred was for those at top
• increased productivity did not mean increased compensation
• fewer middle class jobs created
• financial industry prospered

• aging technology made companies vulnerable to global competition
• rise in automation led to cuts in jobs for blue collar workers
• rise in consumer society favored foreign manufacturers

• strong anti union movement of the 1970s
• viewed as communists during red scare
• temporary workers were not likely to join

• employees hired and fired at will
• no longer are job security and high pensions guaranteed for high productivity

meets the need to socialize children and reproduce

• reinforces and supports power relations in society
• physical force or control over economic resources by men

women choose to exchange households and childcare in exchange for men's income and vice versa

• stresses marriage and child bearing
• disapproves of cohabitation, single mothers, gay marriage, divorce abortion

• identification with specific decades, music and culture
• reacts to prior generation and looks at next skeptically

social, technological, economic, political, cultural transmission

Vietnam, watergate, mtv

peers and mass media

desire to balance lives, diversity, motivated by money, embraces personal computer and internet

globally oriented, exercise, body adornment (self expression)

• political isolation
• linguistic isolation
• poverty concentration
• educational exclusion
• adaption of oppositional culture
• greater health risks

sacred is beyond oursleves, profane is the ordinary, everyday

religion defines spiritual world (stated)

providing a social group for unmarried members (hidden purpose)

• legitimate social arrangement
• provide social unity
• provide a sense of meaning
• provide a sense of belonging

• religion serves ruling elites by legitimizing status quo
• religion makes people apathetic to their plight

explains the meaning religion holds for people