Ch 4 Soc 430
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- social class
- an ordering of all persons in a society according to their degrees of economic resources, prestige, and privilege
- class position
- a person's relationship to the means of production-the things necessary to produce goods and services
- contradictory class location
- a job that has the characteristics of more than one class position
- status group
- a group of people who share a common style of life and often identify with each other
- ideal type
- a hypothetical model that consists of the most significant characteristics, in extreme form, of a social phenomenon
- upper-class families
- families that have amassed wealth and privilege and that often have substantial prestige as well
- middle-class families
- families whose connection to the economy provides them with a secure, comfortable income and allows them to live well above a subsistence level
- working-class families
- families whose income can reliably provide only for the minimum needs of what other people see as a descent life
- lower-class families
- families whose connections to the economy is so tenuous that they they cannot reliably provide for a descent life
- nonstandard employment
- jobs that do not provide full-time, indefinite work directly for the firm that is paying for it
- distribution of family income
- the proportion of the total income of all families in the nation that each family receives
- poverty line
- a federally defined income limit defined as the cost of an "economy" diet for a family, multiplied by three
- women-centered kinship
- a kinship structure in which the strongest bonds of support and caregiving occur among a network of women, most of them relatives, who may live in more than one household
- arranged marriage
- a marriage in which the parents find a spouse for their child by negotiating with other parents
- centralizing women
- women who maintain the links among kin in large, extended families