This is a course on social inequality. In this course, we will seek to understand the effects and reproduction of social inequality in the United States. We will try to answer questions such as: What is Inequality? How does it matter? How does it work? How do parents’ social class and other aspects of their life situations impact their kids’? How do government policies matter?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Median net worth of American families based on social factors
This chart presents the various ways to measure up the net worth of American families based on different attributes (education, age, race/ethnicity and home ownership). It gives us an indication of where we possibly are given our identities and confirms the presence of all the various kinds of inequalities.
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