Warm Up: 10/28
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Analyze the cartoon. What is the message of the
cartoon?
Objective and DOL
Objective
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SWBAT Explain the
difference
between absolute
and relative
measures of
poverty.
DOL
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Write a paragraph
describing the life
of someone in
relative poverty in
America.
Write a paragraph
explaining the life
of someone in
absolute poverty.
Video: Poverty in America
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Make a T chart to complete as you watch
this video:
 What
do you notice the people in the video
do NOT have?
 What do you notice they DO have?
World wide poverty
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(Start at 2 minutes)
This video is of South Africa, the weathiest
nation in Africa.
Make a similar T chart to complete as you
watch this video.
Comparison
How does your idea and
definition of poverty change?
Which version of poverty do you
think of when you hear the word poverty?
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Absolute poverty: the absence of enough money
to secure life’s necessities
What would you consider “necessities”?
 Food, safe place to live, etc.
Relative poverty: a measure of poverty based on
the difference b/t those at the bottom of society
and the rest of society
SpongeBob helps explain it…
Race and Poverty
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Review: What do you recall about the
relationship between race and poverty?
Stats:
 Poverty
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rate for whites: 7.5%
“ for A.A. and latinos: 23%
 These
groups are ¼ of total population but ½ of
poor population
Gender and Poverty
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Nearly ½ of poor households are headed
by females as opposed to 14% of nonpoor
households
Poverty rate of female headed households
is 25% vs 10% for all families.
Feminization of poverty- trend in US
society in which women and children
make up an increasing proportion of the
poor
 Why
do you think this is?
Age and Poverty
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22% of children under 6 are in poverty
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9% of people 65 or older live in poverty
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12% of the poor population have
disabilities
Do these statistics surprise you? Why or
why not?
Homework:
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Read section 8.5 on social mobility. We
will review this quickly tomorrow and then
head to the lab for an activity regarding
this. You will be responsible for this
knowledge on the test, and I will check
notes.
DOL
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Explain the difference between absolute
and relative measures of poverty. Use
examples to justify your answer.
Social Mobility?
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0-5 on your hand.
 What
is social
mobility?
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Social mobility is the
movement of
individuals or groups
between social
classes.
Critical Thinking
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Do you think that a person’s name has an
eventual impact on their position or class in
society?
Does a person’s name impact their eventual
earnings or possibility of social mobility?
 Think about White people, Black people, and
Hispanic people – what names do you associate
with each group?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goGe0Cb
ARDE
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Take aways?
Write down 1 interesting fact from the video.
Critical Thinking
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Do you agree with the findings put forth
in these videos about the correlation
between names and social status?
 Do
you think it is less likely that a person
with a unique name is capable of social
mobility? Explain your answer.
Types of Social Mobility
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Horizontal Mobility:
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Changing form one occupation to another within the
same social class level.
Ex. Army captain becomes a public school teacher.
Vertical Mobility:
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When a person’s occupational status or social class
moves upward or downward.
When this change takes place over a generation it is
called intergenerational mobility.
Ex. A plumber’s daughter becomes a doctor. A
lawyer’s son becomes a carpenter.
Caste System
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caste system- a social stratification structure
that does not allow for social mobility.
Social status is inherited and cannot be changed.
 Statuses, including occupations, are assigned at
birth and cannot be changed.
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Ex. Apartheid in South Africa was a caste
system based on race.
Ex. Indian Hindu Caste system.
Caste systems are maintained through the
power of the higher classes.
video
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What are the benefits / detriments to this
system?
Open-Class System
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An open-class system is a system in which
social class is based on merit and individual
effort – movement is allowed between classes.
Individuals move up and down the
stratification structure as their abilities,
education, and resources permit.
Most people in the U.S. believe they live in an
open-class system.
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CFU: Do you think the U.S. has an open class
system?
Upward and Downward Mobility
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Few places in the world offer the opportunities for
advancement that are available in the United States yet
few people actually achieve it.
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After WWII, high-paying manufacturing jobs made it
relatively easy for people to move upward.
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Americans came to expect that this would always be the
case.
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Globalization and outsourcing in today’s world has
made upward mobility much more difficult to achieve.
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GO TO COLLEGE!
Test Prep
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Tomorrow we will be taking a test over
social stratification.
Complete the following sections of the
Chapter 8 Review on pg. 269-270.
 Reviewing
Vocabulary
 Reviewing the Facts
 Thinking Critically
DOL
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Given an exit card, SWBAT write 7-10
sentences describing the social mobility
that has occurred in their family for the
last two generations.
 Has
intergenerational mobility occurred?
Explain your answer.