Social Stratification in the US: Crash Course Sociology #23

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Today we are continuing our unit on stratification by exploring inequality in the US and talking about five ways that social stratification plays out in the US: income inequality, wealth inequality, political power, occupational prestige, and educational attainment. Crash Course is made with Adobe Creative Cloud. Get a free trial here: www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html *** References: 2016 Income and Poverty Report from the Census www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p60-256.pdf Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S.: 2000 to 2011 digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2322&context=key_workplace Survey of Consumer Finances 2013; graph available here in Figure 1 www.epi.org/blog/the-racial-wealth-gap-how-african-americans-have-been-shortchanged-out-of-the-materials-to-build-wealth/ Fair Housing Act www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/fair_lend_fhact.pdf Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/div-classtitletesting-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizensdiv/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B Measuring Occupational Prestige on the 2012 General Social Survey gss.norc.org/Documents/reports/methodological-reports/MR122%20Occupational%20Prestige.pdf Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances www.russellsage.org/publications/whither-opportunity Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015 www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at www.patreon.com/crashcourse Thanks to the following Patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever: Mark, Les Aker, Bob Kunz, Mark Austin, William McGraw, Jeffrey Thompson, Ruth Perez, Jason A Saslow, D.A. Noe, Shawn Arnold, Eric Prestemon, Malcolm Callis, Advait Shinde, Rachel Bright, Khaled El Shalakany, Ian Dundore, Tim Curwick, Ken Penttinen, Dominic Dos Santos, Indika Siriwardena, Caleb Weeks, Kathrin Janßen, Nathan Taylor, Andrei Krishkevich, Brian Thomas Gossett, Chris Peters, Kathy & Tim Philip, Mayumi Maeda, Eric Kitchen, SR Foxley, Tom Trval, Cami Wilson, Moritz Schmidt, Jessica Wode, Daniel Baulig, Jirat -- Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: patreon.com/crashcourse CC Kids: www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids

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