Midterm 4 study guide for Giddens et al. Chapter 8, Stratification, Class, and Inequality

Know about the following:

social stratification
slavery
the caste system
the estate system
the class system
life chances
Kuznets curve
historical trends in the real income of blue-collar workers in Western societies
racial disparities in wealth and income
the wealthiest 20% of the American population
educational attainment
cultural capital
the new urban poor
William Domhoff
the wealth gap in the income gap between blacks and whites
social mobility
Pierre Bourdieu
Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan
downward mobility
homelessness
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
Eric Olin Wright
globalization
the poverty line
the feminization of poverty