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The Conflict Perspective: Class Conflict and Scarce How Did the World’s Nations Become Stratified? 210
Resources 201 Colonialism 211
Lenski’s Synthesis 202 World System Theory 211
How Do Elites Maintain Stratification? 202 thinking critically When Globalization Comes Home:
Soft Control Versus Force 203 Maquiladoras South of the Border 214
Comparative Social Stratification 204 Culture of Poverty 215
Social Stratification in Great Britain 204 Evaluating the Theories 215
Social Stratification in the Former Soviet Union 205 Maintaining Global Stratification 216
Global Stratification: Three Worlds 206 Neocolonialism 216
The Most Industrialized Nations 206 Multinational Corporations 216
The Industrializing Nations 207 Technology and Global Domination 217
thinking critically open Season: Children as Prey 207 Strains in the Global System 218
The Least Industrialized Nations 210 SummAry And revIew 218
Modifying the Model 210

Chapter 8 Social Class in the United States 220

What Is Social Class? 221 Women in Studies of Social Mobility 239
Property 222 The Pain of Social Mobility 239
Power 224 Poverty 239
Down-to-Earth Sociology How the Super-Rich Live 225 cultural DivErSity in thE unitED StatES Social Class
and the Upward Social Mobility of African Americans 240
Prestige 226
Drawing the Poverty Line 240
Status Inconsistency 227
Down-to-Earth Sociology Some Facts about Poverty:
Sociological Models of Social Class 228
What Do You Know? 242
Updating Marx 228 Who Are the Poor? 243
Down-to-Earth Sociology The Big Win: Life after the Children of Poverty 244
Lottery 229 thinking critically The nation’s Shame: Children in
Updating Weber 230 Poverty 245
Consequences of Social Class 233 The Dynamics of Poverty versus the Culture of
Physical Health 233 Poverty 245
Mental Health 234 Why Are People Poor? 246
Family Life 234 thinking critically The Welfare Debate: The Deserving
and the Undeserving Poor 246
Education 235
Deferred Gratification 247
Religion 236
Politics 236 Down-to-Earth Sociology Poverty: A Personal
Journey 248
Crime and Criminal Justice 236
Where Is Horatio Alger? The Social Functions of a
Social Mobility 236 Myth 248
Three Types of Social Mobility 236 SummAry And revIew 249
Down-to-Earth Sociology Researching “The American
Dream”: Social Mobility Today 238