Social Stratification in the US: Crash Course Sociology #23

Social class in America is... hard to talk about. As Sociology, the difficulty lies in pinning down what we mean by "Social Class." In this episode of Crash Course Sociology, Nicole chats to us about how Sociologists figure this out so we can all have a clearer idea of what we're talking about. Crash Course is made with Adobe Creative Cloud. Get a free trial here: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html *** References: 2016 Income and Poverty Report from the Census https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p60-256.pdf Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S.: 2000 to 2011 http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2322&context=key_workplace Survey of Consumer Finances 2013; graph available here in Figure 1 http://www.epi.org/blog/the-racial-wealth-gap-how-african-americans-have-been-shortchanged-out-of-the-materials-to-build-wealth/ Fair Housing Act https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/fair_lend_fhact.pdf Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens https://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 http://gss.norc.org/Documents/reports/methodological-reports/MR122%20Occupational%20Prestige.pdf Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances https://www.russellsage.org/publications/whither-opportunity Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015 https://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 http://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