I love how the main goal of society as a whole is equality and then we get deeper in and see labels of who someone's going to be because status, race, color, gender, etc.
If anyone wants to argue with me about the info presented in this video, please provide some sources. I feel this video was objective in that some people have harder chances than others to succeed in life. And for some reason people think that anything that mentions race, gender or equality equals communism.
Jarful of Love violate who's rights, it shows that some people need social security and not just minorities, lots of people need social security to help them out but I'm not advocating for full equality as that won't happen. I just want to balance the playing field.
I dunno if it can be fixed without the whole video coming down, or even if the folks at CC will see this comment, but in the chart labeled "Education Levels of American Adults," the word "American" is spelled wrong. Sorry for being nitpicky!
"that all men are created equal, that they are endowed (...) with *certain* unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." People are equal to certain rights, emphasis on certain.
I just want to tell all of the people with poor parents: you don't have to live that way. My parents gambled, smoked, drank and spent all of their money and complained how "the poor get poorer". Meanwhile, I had to pay for all of my own college, but I worked as I went to school, and now I'm out of debt, I own a house, I love my job, happily married, and all because I saved my money rather than spent it at the casino, bar or restaurant. You don't have to be a victim of your parents behavior. You CAN "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" if you want it enough. Another important idea; it's not how much you make, it has everything to do with how much you SAVE. So instead of buying cigarettes, liquor, lotto tickets, or fast food, save that money for troubles you may face in the future. It will change your life.
There's a bit of an issue with racial wealth inequality comparing the medians-it actually undersells the story. The median quintile doesn't really own much in any racial group, so comparing median white wealth to median black wealth doesn't communicate the severity of the gap. This is where mean is the appropriate tool: the mean wealth gap between white and black folks is quite a lot more than the median wealth gap, since nearly all wealth is concentrated in the top quintile and above.
I'm not worried about income inequality, people need motivation to work. Not worried about wealth inequality either, if someone likes to save for a rainy day, that's a good thing that buffers us from things like the 2008 crash. What we need to fight is income immobility. We need to look at why it's difficult to get out of poverty, and why being born in a wealthy family is a strong indicator of your own earning potential. This is a sign of many issues, from discrimination to a failing education system.
oh good, hey all you poor folks. it's fine! kathy sharp says that you can get out of poverty at ANY time, just do it! oh wait, she didn't actually say anything of substance, or give any indication that she know's wtf she's talking about. carry on
I live on the social fringe because I became disabled due to medical reasons at 25, the current system has no protocol for such a situation. Also I have learned over the years that I am now in a catch 22, as it is the amount of aid that I receive is not a livable amount. In order to increase this amount IF I reach retirement age I need to work, at which point my aid is decreased. Damned if I do damned if I do not, I chose to be proactive for two reasons, I want to do what I can to not further burden my family and avoid becoming property of the state stuck in a hospital.
This kind of videos are very helpful for me before i go to college in the US .. by the way English is not my first language and I've never taking any classes so I'm learning on my on .. it's harder than I thought because i must take the ielts test .. I've been studying everyday for 2 weeks and it's really frustrating .. so if anyone would help me for a few days I will really appreciate it my test is in September 9 If said anything grammatically wrong please let me know .
This kind of video is very helpful... I've never taken any classes so I'm learning on my own... if anyone would help me for a few days I would really appreciate it You're doing quite well. Good luck with your test.
*These* *kinds* of videos are very helpful or This kind of *video* *is* very helpful. I've never *taken* any classes So I'm learning on my *own* I *would* really appreciate it My test is *on* September 9 If *I* said anything There was a lot of punctuation and syntax that was off, but that's dependent upon how stringent the testing requires you to be. You constructed your sentences clearly enough to convey your message without issue.
I'd like some clarification, please. When you say: "even if you control for income" what do you mean by that? Is the sociologist who make that control? If so, what kind of control is it? I'm loving these videos so far! They've been really helpful to understand a lot of things.
One important thing to note here is that this is all talking about HOUSEHOLD income, which is not the same as PERSONAL income. The average American household has approximately two people, and the average personal income is unsurprisingly about half of the average household income. Also of note is they're not mentioning the difference between the mean and the median here, and only talking about the median. For incomes, either personal or household, the mean is nearly TWICE the median. So imagine you take all the money all Americans make and divide it up evenly per person. That's the mean. The median is about half of that, meaning that about half of Americans make not only less than that average (mean), they make less than HALF of that average. The percentile who make around the mean are about the 75th percentile, meaning 75% of the country make less than "average" and only 25% make more than it. To illustrate with rounder approximate numbers: all the income in the country divided up evenly is around $100k per each average two-person household, or about $50k per person. But it's not half of households and people above those numbers and half below; it's a quarter above and three-quarters below. And most of those three-quarters are FAR below; half of households make below about $50k, what a single "average" person should be expected to make, and half of individuals make less than around $25k each.
>Equality would mean the same income for everyone That's equity. I'm sure the people who have worked hard to get where they are now in life just love your definition of "equality".
The thing about free market is if someone has money, that means someone gave the money to him. And unless the guy broke the law, that means both parties got something from the deal and had considered the terms to be good. Nobody is forcing anyone. So, if a person has money, that means other people considered his good or services worthy of their money. If that person has people working for him, unless he is holding them prisoner, that means they consider the working conditions to be if not good, than better then the alternatives.
I still say the main issue is that the government doesn't know how to recognize and apply individual skills. If they did, then we wouldn't have to worry about classism or alleged disabilities nearly as much.
Just want to say, income will always be positively skewed. It makes sense when you consider that there is no upper bound, but there will always be a lower bound ($0). This means that the outliers or the extremes will always skew the data heavily. I'm just thinking of this from a statistician perspective.
Not in a society with a maximum income ceiling. Which would be fair, past 300 000$ per year, why do you need more money ? That's a kind of addiction and it should be treated as such !
Now watch the commenters claim this video - which contains only statistical data and expressly takes no position on it - is an attack on the social order...
Video seems fine to me. Factual and impartial. She did raise an interesting point at the end about different life choices and preferences influencing ones income. Seems like that could go a long way towards explaining a certain 'gap between wages'....
Skilled occupations like Electrician are getting reduced wages. An electrician could make 45.00 an hour ten years ago; now its less than 20.00/hour. People are forced to work multiple jobs even those who have skilled jobs.
The concept is interesting, as it is the real world. Ideology and personal preference does shape and mold social views or trends. It has been said that when you are born at the bottom, it's not that you can't get to the top. It's that others will keep you at the bottom because if you were to rise out of your lower social class, you might bump someone out from the upper class so you can get in. There's not enough room for everyone anywhere or everywhere, that's just how real life can be.
At 6:35 the chart shown has a typo I realized. Took me three times watching the video though to notice it lol. It say “AMREICAN” instead of “AMERICAN”. Regardless doesn’t effect the information, still a great video just wanted to point it out
Social stratification in the U.S.: That thing the trolls are defending but can't articulate how or why it is being attack, why it's good, or why it has merit.
So no one actually saw the video. No one can make a cogent case for why the U.S. is a meritocracy despite the impact of inherited wealth on individual success or why the policies that created it are sensible. And everyone responds that even thinking about these questions is socialism. Got it.
What's your planned solution? Do we get rid of the family unit and raise children in communes? That way there's no inheritance or parental influence. Good luck convincing parents to give up their children.
If the US was meritocratic, then rich kids wouldn't fail-up so often. Rich people and corporations experience the socialist part of the US. The rest of us are stuck in the Darwinistic capitalism part of the US.
Lets get this straight we are hardly a free market captialist society at the moment and god do I wish it were. We are in an age of interventionism so severe we have actual college students openly talking about "Controlling the people" as a goal or purpose of government. We fundamentally cannot have a free market capitalist nation with this level of interventionism and moderate-severe amounts of socialism so blame that and dont soil the name of free market capitalism.
In crash course sociology videos, the ending music starts early. I think it is kind of disrespectful towards the host. As a veviewer, I struggle a little concentrating on the last bits of the script, usually the part which includes the summary of that weeks video. In overall I find the videos well prepared and useful. Thanks.
I like the video but I have to disagree on your last comment the fact is yes depending on what environment you grow in and your household income your future can be affected but that doesn't determine it. yes life will be much difficult if you grew up poor or easier if you grew up with money. For the middle class it could go either way. But I guess what you were saying is that the opportunities for poor income people in this country are very limited and that there are statistics on this fact, but that doesn't determine for all in that income bracelet, I just wish u that specified as well. Otherthan that nice video.😊☺👍💓
ok but I have a question. How is it fair to put say myself who is one person and I make 20,000 a year. I feel like I have plenty of money and low cost of living. vs. a family of 4 who lives on 20,000 a year who struggle to get by. How are we both in the same boat? i feel like they should make the income based on per person and not per household. Having dependents changes a lot
i don't like that there was ZERO mention that most "households" in black communities are single-parent households (almost always single mothers). while most white households have two parents and that after 1-2 years post-baby, those parents BOTH work at least part time. STOP throwing numbers without context! and PLEASE start talking about personal choices that are common in large groups. the level of crime in black neighborhoods vs. white ones is ALWAYS higher, even adjusting for income. i'm black and grew up in Atlanta with a single mother. i saw where EVERYONE ELSE was headed, and got out of there ASAP! there was a cycle of excuses and bad choices despite better, lawful, hopeful options that people didn't even acknowledge was there. it really seems like sociology is meant to tell the world that since well-of people are few and far between, that they are the bad ones and everyone else is being done wrong. this series is starting to go the way of CC Human Geography 😕
The phrasing of the degrees US-people is sad. You said that some only had a highschool degree, as if it was bad. I don't know the exact oppurtunites you have in the USA with this degree, but compared to Germany it seems ridiculous. Even our lowest degree the "Hauptschulabschluss" (which you mostly have to finish) is enough for most craftmanship and even some higher mechanics jobs.
I thought it should be mandatory to spezialize into certain fields. You do this for almost everything. After the "Abitur" the highest German degree, you have to go to Universities and "Fachhochschulen" to spezialize in the field you want to work in.
Representing those wealth figures and quintiles in graph would have been more useful, not every one can visualize two thousand four hundred four vs six thousand nine hundred fifty five immediately
you've got to understand their point of view. they are surely not against a better life for the poor people, its just that they dont want their lifes to get worse to make others' better.
Thing I have found about US politics is both sides don't like the state of things, they disagree deeply on how to solve the problems. On wealth inequality for example conservatives tend to advocate for equality of opportunity while socialists argue for more equity and collective management. Both sides don't trust the other with deciding things in a system based on compromise so nothing gets done lmao
The government is corrupt. I don't see how higher taxes is going to fix that. The leftists want authoritarian communism, which is far worse than what we currently have. Just look at what happens in China or North Korea. Censorship, brainwashing, and the murdering dissenters.
Qrow Branwen The cost of food depends on where you live. I've lived in New York City and a dozen eggs cost 4.12-5.12(when I lived there). While where I live in florida it costs 3.12-3.98, while were my cousins live it's 2.5 -3.12 and tax is not included. And yes this was the same set of eggs. There is no same set price, so what's cheap for you, could be really expensive somewhere else. And since most people on welfare are not making enough money,if you're in a places where food is expensive and you're on welfare, you probably can't move to where food is cheaper. so now you're stuck in a place where food is expensive and can't get food. This is what happens in places where they're are food deserts, (along with constintily cheap food, tending to be junk or fast food), it leaves people either hungry or unhealthy or both because their poor and food is expensive.
"Blacks who earn 100k live in homes whites who make 30k would. " seems misleading before I press play, income is what you used as a means of pointing out the gap but I feel like it really depends on the wealth...
Can you send me the page where you found the list of occupational prestige? I'm curious as to where jobs like engineering and teaching stand (overall on the list, I do know the general area both would be in).
"I'm perfectly fine about a doctor making more money than I am." So am I, that makes sense, but let's say your income is more than 600 000$ per year, WHY DO YOU SO DESPERATELY NEED SO MUCH MONEY !? I'd have literally no idea what I could do to make use of that if not throwing it at poor people...
OMG, total curve ball. Lip color matches shirt color this time. I was randomly distracted for the first minute...which tells me I need to lay off the medicine at night.
James Russell Oh, so I guess everything published by peer-reviewed academic journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, the Annual Review of Sociology is just junk science then.
You forgot a word ("Why would you *hold* CrashCourse..."). Did you have an American public school education? :P And Trump doesn't claim to be an educator. No one thinks Trump is eloquent, not even his supporters. Not that Trump has anything to do what so ever with pointing out this mistake...
Due to your mentioning of Thomas Jefferson, it sounds like you are trying to get us to infer that he wouldn't approve of today's society. What you forget to mention is that equality of wealth is communism and the founding fathers would differently disapprove of communism.
Lmao are these vids still getting hate from "rational" "centrists" and "common sense" conservatives? What a joke. Literal opposition to science - reminds me of the internet creationists of the early 21st century.
Qrow Branwen There is also the fact the Asians that come here come with a college education and didnt have their equal access to education and services shot down by Jim Crow last century. Now Black people dont have any generational wealth because the whites made damn sure they didnt have access to the market. Even black millionares in the present get treated differently but of course you dont want to talk about any of that.
Qrow Branwen Oh, please, this video was as neutral as hecking possible. She mentioned that asian americans are on average more educated than other races and that level if education correlates with income
You "anti-conservatives" are so deluded that you are advocating for restricting free speech as positive change, for example. Your minds have been so taken by propaganda that you feed on each other's delusions, in fact you are lead by passion and emotions, not reason and logic - so stfu about conservatives being in opposition to science. the progressives have been trying to rewrite history and change science to fit their ideologies. Bias is something we all have, but to let it rule over your critical thinking is to be so liberal that your brains fall out.
"Jim Crow no longer exists. additionally, blacks were making gains in income and employment and poverty relief until the welfare state came along and led to a massive surge in single moms." Incorrect. Welfare existed well before Jim Crow ended. It was deemed "okay" until minorities were given access to the same social program. Do you know what actually came quick on the heels of the end of Jim Crow? The "war on drugs".
What would that sentence even mean, if we took it seriously? People aren't "created" at all, for a start, and how could they possibly be "created equal" when they're all born into different circumstances? Like, a platitude from the preamble of a centuries-old legal document isn't a fact or a binding moral precept.
If you are making it in life, you are lucky, If you have a roof to keep you dry and warm, food, health care, education etc, you are simply lucky. You had the right combination of childhood, education, parental guidance, brain chemistry, connections, investments, intelligence and information in order to get where you are. You can't possibly think you were in control of any of those things. You were simply lucky. The only thing you have control over is what you do with what is given to you. But you don't control what was given to you, so the point is actually moot. Those starving, in poverty, in social traps of backwards cultures and ideas, those with diseases and broken dreams, you were unlucky. People hate that, because it brings into question their entire philosophy of life, karma, free-will, try and succeed. Everything the movies say, that if you work hard enough, you'll get somewhere. We can't admit that some people just get the short end of the stick, because it's mathematically impossible for their to be winners if there are no losers. I'm lucky, I feel an obligation to share any excess I have with those who just weren't lucky. I matter first, sure, but I don't need nor want a mansion while some people starve. I only want one as long as everyone at the VERY LEAST has their needs met. I can't understand the callousness to think otherwise, or the complete fantasy world that is the guarantee that if you work hard enough, you're going to make it, and if you're not making it, you aren't working hard enough. It's up there with believing in Santa. Didn't get any presents this year? That's because you didn't work hard enough to believe Billy. Too bad for you, you're lazy I guess. People have the audacity to think they earned their luck. This shows very heavily in the bitterness of "MINE and I suffered, so you should too" culture in the USA and many other countries with high poverty rates. They think they earned things because they simply were lucky enough to get them. You don't earn anything, not when there are people who work twice as hard as you and still don't make it. You were lucky. Things aren't balanced enough to just say we earned really anything, as in life we choose very little on what happens to us.
this is one of the best Crash Course series i've watched so far!
I love how the main goal of society as a whole is equality and then we get deeper in and see labels of who someone's going to be because status, race, color, gender, etc.
If anyone wants to argue with me about the info presented in this video, please provide some sources.
I feel this video was objective in that some people have harder chances than others to succeed in life.
And for some reason people think that anything that mentions race, gender or equality equals communism.
so.... what are the implications?
Well then, really shows that the developed world isn't as equal as many want it to.
what? i don't really understand what this has to don with the conversation. explain please.
Jarful of Love violate who's rights, it shows that some people need social security and not just minorities, lots of people need social security to help them out but I'm not advocating for full equality as that won't happen. I just want to balance the playing field.
@@jamestang1227 We need some of that Communism!
On behalf of liberals and conservatives everywhere, CC, I'd like to apologize for the comments section below this video.
I would like to see a Crashcourse Botany :) or herbology. I wanna learn about plants :)
Aaron Pederson that would be lit
I didn't know I wanted it, but now it's all I want.
I dunno if it can be fixed without the whole video coming down, or even if the folks at CC will see this comment, but in the chart labeled "Education Levels of American Adults," the word "American" is spelled wrong. Sorry for being nitpicky!
OOPS. Unfortunately, yes, the only way to fix this would be to pull the video, and this isn't the kind of error that's worth that. Oh well!
Simple way to correct it: Let Amreica be the next chum-chum or dooblydoo. (a.k.a. embrace the "meme")
;)
CrashCourse That's too bad. Oh well! At least noticing it got me a reply from you guys! It's an honor! 😂😁
Also, the 1930s is written with an apostrophe: 1930's. It drives me crazy whenever I see someone do that...
Thumbs up for the Veronica Mars reference! :D
That one's on Joanna, who wrote this one, but I was pretty excited when I saw it in the script.
-Nicole
this series is so satisfying
Lol she spits those income percentages like Bernie I love it
"American" is spelled wrong on the one slide but that's okay, no one is perfect. Loving the series.
"that all men are created equal, that they are endowed (...) with *certain* unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
People are equal to certain rights, emphasis on certain.
I just want to tell all of the people with poor parents: you don't have to live that way. My parents gambled, smoked, drank and spent all of their money and complained how "the poor get poorer". Meanwhile, I had to pay for all of my own college, but I worked as I went to school, and now I'm out of debt, I own a house, I love my job, happily married, and all because I saved my money rather than spent it at the casino, bar or restaurant. You don't have to be a victim of your parents behavior. You CAN "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" if you want it enough. Another important idea; it's not how much you make, it has everything to do with how much you SAVE. So instead of buying cigarettes, liquor, lotto tickets, or fast food, save that money for troubles you may face in the future. It will change your life.
There's a bit of an issue with racial wealth inequality comparing the medians-it actually undersells the story. The median quintile doesn't really own much in any racial group, so comparing median white wealth to median black wealth doesn't communicate the severity of the gap. This is where mean is the appropriate tool: the mean wealth gap between white and black folks is quite a lot more than the median wealth gap, since nearly all wealth is concentrated in the top quintile and above.
Good job CC! KEEP IT UP!!!
I'm not worried about income inequality, people need motivation to work. Not worried about wealth inequality either, if someone likes to save for a rainy day, that's a good thing that buffers us from things like the 2008 crash.
What we need to fight is income immobility. We need to look at why it's difficult to get out of poverty, and why being born in a wealthy family is a strong indicator of your own earning potential. This is a sign of many issues, from discrimination to a failing education system.
add regressive licensing and rent seeking to the list
oh good, hey all you poor folks. it's fine! kathy sharp says that you can get out of poverty at ANY time, just do it!
oh wait, she didn't actually say anything of substance, or give any indication that she know's wtf she's talking about. carry on
@Kathy Sharp so sociology means learning about society of US only??
equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome.........key fact to know about.
I live on the social fringe because I became disabled due to medical reasons at 25, the current system has no protocol for such a situation. Also I have learned over the years that I am now in a catch 22, as it is the amount of aid that I receive is not a livable amount. In order to increase this amount IF I reach retirement age I need to work, at which point my aid is decreased. Damned if I do damned if I do not, I chose to be proactive for two reasons, I want to do what I can to not further burden my family and avoid becoming property of the state stuck in a hospital.
This kind of videos are very helpful for me before i go to college in the US .. by the way English is not my first language and I've never taking any classes so I'm learning on my on .. it's harder than I thought because i must take the ielts test .. I've been studying everyday for 2 weeks and it's really frustrating .. so if anyone would help me for a few days I will really appreciate it my test is in September 9
If said anything grammatically wrong please let me know .
This kind of video is very helpful... I've never taken any classes so I'm learning on my own... if anyone would help me for a few days I would really appreciate it
You're doing quite well. Good luck with your test.
*These* *kinds* of videos are very helpful or This kind of *video* *is* very helpful.
I've never *taken* any classes
So I'm learning on my *own*
I *would* really appreciate it
My test is *on* September 9
If *I* said anything
There was a lot of punctuation and syntax that was off, but that's dependent upon how stringent the testing requires you to be. You constructed your sentences clearly enough to convey your message without issue.
I'd like some clarification, please. When you say: "even if you control for income" what do you mean by that?
Is the sociologist who make that control? If so, what kind of control is it?
I'm loving these videos so far! They've been really helpful to understand a lot of things.
I'm pretty sure she meant : "Even if you gather statistics about income in the selected sample."
One important thing to note here is that this is all talking about HOUSEHOLD income, which is not the same as PERSONAL income. The average American household has approximately two people, and the average personal income is unsurprisingly about half of the average household income.
Also of note is they're not mentioning the difference between the mean and the median here, and only talking about the median. For incomes, either personal or household, the mean is nearly TWICE the median. So imagine you take all the money all Americans make and divide it up evenly per person. That's the mean. The median is about half of that, meaning that about half of Americans make not only less than that average (mean), they make less than HALF of that average. The percentile who make around the mean are about the 75th percentile, meaning 75% of the country make less than "average" and only 25% make more than it.
To illustrate with rounder approximate numbers: all the income in the country divided up evenly is around $100k per each average two-person household, or about $50k per person. But it's not half of households and people above those numbers and half below; it's a quarter above and three-quarters below. And most of those three-quarters are FAR below; half of households make below about $50k, what a single "average" person should be expected to make, and half of individuals make less than around $25k each.
Fantastically informative video. Thanks for sharing!
please make more videos it helps in understanding myriad complex social science questions
OMG I thought I was going nuts when I read "AMREICAN" on the chart at 6:35 I thought it was me going dyslexic....
>Equality would mean the same income for everyone
That's equity. I'm sure the people who have worked hard to get where they are now in life just love your definition of "equality".
The thing about free market is if someone has money, that means someone gave the money to him. And unless the guy broke the law, that means both parties got something from the deal and had considered the terms to be good. Nobody is forcing anyone.
So, if a person has money, that means other people considered his good or services worthy of their money. If that person has people working for him, unless he is holding them prisoner, that means they consider the working conditions to be if not good, than better then the alternatives.
Exactly! Merit based inequality is our standpoint and equality of opportunity is our goal.
yep, pretty much
Jarful of Love for some reason a majority of them are white... Weird huh?
Source for that claim?
i hope yall aren't getting too disheartened about all the dislikes and jerky responses. you're just bein factual, up theirs for bein against that
By far the most prestigious job is teaching sociology on PBS Digital Studio.
I still say the main issue is that the government doesn't know how to recognize and apply individual skills. If they did, then we wouldn't have to worry about classism or alleged disabilities nearly as much.
I love you Nicole!🌹
So it's true that Americans ask for your occupation so soon after meeting. I always thought it was a stereotype.
Just want to say, income will always be positively skewed. It makes sense when you consider that there is no upper bound, but there will always be a lower bound ($0). This means that the outliers or the extremes will always skew the data heavily.
I'm just thinking of this from a statistician perspective.
Not in a society with a maximum income ceiling. Which would be fair, past 300 000$ per year, why do you need more money ? That's a kind of addiction and it should be treated as such !
Now watch the commenters claim this video - which contains only statistical data and expressly takes no position on it - is an attack on the social order...
RandomyFilms well, truth hurts to certain individuals. For some people should just sing heroic tunes about the wealthy.
Exactly
Video seems fine to me. Factual and impartial.
She did raise an interesting point at the end about different life choices and preferences influencing ones income. Seems like that could go a long way towards explaining a certain 'gap between wages'....
chappy0061 careful dont stir up the feminists theyre master mind benders
The comments of crash course are among the most cancerous on youtube. I need to stop scrolling on crash course videos.
6:44 I love the spelling of American. Thought bubble prestige just dropped a little lol
At 6:33 a graph is displayed, about education, where American is spelled Amreican. Just FYI.
All humans are equal, but some are more equal than the others.
Everything is changeable as long as you're willing to work and make wisely decisions.
Now I know who or what kind of people came up with the great idea of vastly lowering requirements for mortgages which caused 2008
Skilled occupations like Electrician are getting reduced wages. An electrician could make 45.00 an hour ten years ago; now its less than 20.00/hour. People are forced to work multiple jobs even those who have skilled jobs.
Perfect equality of outcome would mean the same income for all people.
Is that a Funko Sansa on Nicole's Iron Throne? Just noticed her...
The concept is interesting, as it is the real world. Ideology and personal preference does shape and mold social views or trends. It has been said that when you are born at the bottom, it's not that you can't get to the top. It's that others will keep you at the bottom because if you were to rise out of your lower social class, you might bump someone out from the upper class so you can get in. There's not enough room for everyone anywhere or everywhere, that's just how real life can be.
Can you make a video about the Thracians, please?
Let's start an argument about inheritance is base on merit.
At 6:35 the chart shown has a typo I realized. Took me three times watching the video though to notice it lol. It say “AMREICAN” instead of “AMERICAN”. Regardless doesn’t effect the information, still a great video just wanted to point it out
Is being a professional musician considered a job? Or how about being a professional Jazz musician?
Seems like we are pawns in the social ladder, Our destinies are fixed as we are born.
Social stratification in the U.S.: That thing the trolls are defending but can't articulate how or why it is being attack, why it's good, or why it has merit.
Rob McCune It's simple: when everyone earns equal amount of money, it's socialism and socialism is not effective in 21st century
So no one actually saw the video. No one can make a cogent case for why the U.S. is a meritocracy despite the impact of inherited wealth on individual success or why the policies that created it are sensible. And everyone responds that even thinking about these questions is socialism. Got it.
What's your planned solution? Do we get rid of the family unit and raise children in communes? That way there's no inheritance or parental influence. Good luck convincing parents to give up their children.
If the US was meritocratic, then rich kids wouldn't fail-up so often.
Rich people and corporations experience the socialist part of the US. The rest of us are stuck in the Darwinistic capitalism part of the US.
Lets get this straight we are hardly a free market captialist society at the moment and god do I wish it were. We are in an age of interventionism so severe we have actual college students openly talking about "Controlling the people" as a goal or purpose of government. We fundamentally cannot have a free market capitalist nation with this level of interventionism and moderate-severe amounts of socialism so blame that and dont soil the name of free market capitalism.
Political influence "could" come from higher political bribes...*cough**splutter** I mean donations...
How do the power elite reproduce the class structure?
In crash course sociology videos, the ending music starts early. I think it is kind of disrespectful towards the host. As a veviewer, I struggle a little concentrating on the last bits of the script, usually the part which includes the summary of that weeks video. In overall I find the videos well prepared and useful. Thanks.
I like the video but I have to disagree on your last comment the fact is yes depending on what environment you grow in and your household income your future can be affected but that doesn't determine it. yes life will be much difficult if you grew up poor or easier if you grew up with money. For the middle class it could go either way. But I guess what you were saying is that the opportunities for poor income people in this country are very limited and that there are statistics on this fact, but that doesn't determine for all in that income bracelet, I just wish u that specified as well.
Otherthan that nice video.😊☺👍💓
ok but I have a question. How is it fair to put say myself who is one person and I make 20,000 a year. I feel like I have plenty of money and low cost of living. vs. a family of 4 who lives on 20,000 a year who struggle to get by. How are we both in the same boat? i feel like they should make the income based on per person and not per household. Having dependents changes a lot
I didn't think so but why does she only speak about white and black Americans at 3:00?
i don't like that there was ZERO mention that most "households" in black communities are single-parent households (almost always single mothers). while most white households have two parents and that after 1-2 years post-baby, those parents BOTH work at least part time. STOP throwing numbers without context! and PLEASE start talking about personal choices that are common in large groups. the level of crime in black neighborhoods vs. white ones is ALWAYS higher, even adjusting for income. i'm black and grew up in Atlanta with a single mother. i saw where EVERYONE ELSE was headed, and got out of there ASAP! there was a cycle of excuses and bad choices despite better, lawful, hopeful options that people didn't even acknowledge was there.
it really seems like sociology is meant to tell the world that since well-of people are few and far between, that they are the bad ones and everyone else is being done wrong. this series is starting to go the way of CC Human Geography 😕
The phrasing of the degrees US-people is sad. You said that some only had a highschool degree, as if it was bad. I don't know the exact oppurtunites you have in the USA with this degree, but compared to Germany it seems ridiculous. Even our lowest degree the "Hauptschulabschluss" (which you mostly have to finish) is enough for most craftmanship and even some higher mechanics jobs.
I thought it should be mandatory to spezialize into certain fields. You do this for almost everything. After the "Abitur" the highest German degree, you have to go to Universities and "Fachhochschulen" to spezialize in the field you want to work in.
good job for posting the references there! hoho
Representing those wealth figures and quintiles in graph would have been more useful, not every one can visualize two thousand four hundred four vs six thousand nine hundred fifty five immediately
Anyone else notice that the word "American" was misspelled as "Amreican" in one of the slides?
you should do math videos; algebra in particular!! :))
"Things maybe shouldn't be how they are now"
Conservatives: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
you've got to understand their point of view. they are surely not against a better life for the poor people, its just that they dont want their lifes to get worse to make others' better.
Thing I have found about US politics is both sides don't like the state of things, they disagree deeply on how to solve the problems. On wealth inequality for example conservatives tend to advocate for equality of opportunity while socialists argue for more equity and collective management. Both sides don't trust the other with deciding things in a system based on compromise so nothing gets done lmao
The government is corrupt. I don't see how higher taxes is going to fix that. The leftists want authoritarian communism, which is far worse than what we currently have. Just look at what happens in China or North Korea. Censorship, brainwashing, and the murdering dissenters.
Álvaro Lopes You win.
Qrow Branwen The cost of food depends on where you live. I've lived in New York City and a dozen eggs cost 4.12-5.12(when I lived there). While where I live in florida it costs 3.12-3.98, while were my cousins live it's 2.5 -3.12 and tax is not included.
And yes this was the same set of eggs. There is no same set price, so what's cheap for you, could be really expensive somewhere else. And since most people on welfare are not making enough money,if you're in a places where food is expensive and you're on welfare, you probably can't move to where food is cheaper.
so now you're stuck in a place where food is expensive and can't get food. This is what happens in places where they're are food deserts, (along with constintily cheap food, tending to be junk or fast food), it leaves people either hungry or unhealthy or both because their poor and food is expensive.
I wish they taught about redlining in schools.
Seth R I actually learned about that freshman year. Not in a private or charter school, either.
How do you spell America wrong in a chart about education levels?
"Blacks who earn 100k live in homes whites who make 30k would. " seems misleading before I press play, income is what you used as a means of pointing out the gap but I feel like it really depends on the wealth...
Can you send me the page where you found the list of occupational prestige? I'm curious as to where jobs like engineering and teaching stand (overall on the list, I do know the general area both would be in).
Yay re learning on why my family is poor as f_**
Do social mobility next, preferably with some charts comparing different nations, and watch the conservatives explode :/
Yeah, the introduction of western technology to the grass hut villages in Western Europe caused the huge social mobility there.
Was that a joke?
Jeroen Metselaar I love you friend
Stopped watching after 1:23
There is a typo on the graph at 6:44
"Education Levels of Amreican Adults"
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Dan Scannell
People can be very educated here.
Typo at 6:34, "Amreican"
"I'm perfectly fine about a doctor making more money than I am." So am I, that makes sense, but let's say your income is more than 600 000$ per year, WHY DO YOU SO DESPERATELY NEED SO MUCH MONEY !? I'd have literally no idea what I could do to make use of that if not throwing it at poor people...
Jean-Christophe Arsenault you earn it and it is YOURS end of story
Where is #24? Just when it was getting more interesting..
OMG, total curve ball. Lip color matches shirt color this time. I was randomly distracted for the first minute...which tells me I need to lay off the medicine at night.
Meritocracy is what the drives us in Singapore. :)
Why do so many people hate sociology
Sociology is a science.
Well, I guess that's better than calling it a pseudo-science, I suppose. So, ok.
James Russell
Oh, so I guess everything published by peer-reviewed academic journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, the Annual Review of Sociology is just junk science then.
Your definition of certain words is not the same as soceities
6:39 Misspelled American
You spelled American wrong in a graphic, ironically the graphic for education levels.
Inequality os not good ir bad??
Well, if you say how much inequality we are talking about it may depend, but the actual one is bad in all the ways we can imagine.
its good to have straight A's. :)
The amount of ideological possession is staggering.
That was some serious speed talking. Great information though, thanks!
Carlee Pollock says she doesnt like you. This was a challenge by her, that i would not post this.
+CrashCourse @6:39 "Most Americans have highschool diplomas..." Apparently not the one who spell checked the slide. "Amreican" hehehe.
You forgot a word ("Why would you *hold* CrashCourse..."). Did you have an American public school education? :P And Trump doesn't claim to be an educator. No one thinks Trump is eloquent, not even his supporters. Not that Trump has anything to do what so ever with pointing out this mistake...
Due to your mentioning of Thomas Jefferson, it sounds like you are trying to get us to infer that he wouldn't approve of today's society. What you forget to mention is that equality of wealth is communism and the founding fathers would differently disapprove of communism.
What about Kim Kardashian
Lmao are these vids still getting hate from "rational" "centrists" and "common sense" conservatives? What a joke. Literal opposition to science - reminds me of the internet creationists of the early 21st century.
Qrow Branwen There is also the fact the Asians that come here come with a college education and didnt have their equal access to education and services shot down by Jim Crow last century. Now Black people dont have any generational wealth because the whites made damn sure they didnt have access to the market. Even black millionares in the present get treated differently but of course you dont want to talk about any of that.
Qrow Branwen Oh, please, this video was as neutral as hecking possible. She mentioned that asian americans are on average more educated than other races and that level if education correlates with income
You "anti-conservatives" are so deluded that you are advocating for restricting free speech as positive change, for example. Your minds have been so taken by propaganda that you feed on each other's delusions, in fact you are lead by passion and emotions, not reason and logic - so stfu about conservatives being in opposition to science. the progressives have been trying to rewrite history and change science to fit their ideologies. Bias is something we all have, but to let it rule over your critical thinking is to be so liberal that your brains fall out.
Qrow Branwen blacks were making gains? in the 1960s? Data?
"Jim Crow no longer exists. additionally, blacks were making gains in income and employment and poverty relief until the welfare state came along and led to a massive surge in single moms."
Incorrect. Welfare existed well before Jim Crow ended. It was deemed "okay" until minorities were given access to the same social program.
Do you know what actually came quick on the heels of the end of Jim Crow?
The "war on drugs".
love the channel... you guys do blockchain yet? would love to see that.
@6:45 - "AMREICAN adults"? LOL
Profess! Sociological sister!
The speaker would look better with her original dark hair imho
Most Amreican Adults? 6:40
If you are born poor, it is not your fault
If you age and die poor it is your fault
Sociology says all men are not created equal. You heard it from Crash Course.
What would that sentence even mean, if we took it seriously? People aren't "created" at all, for a start, and how could they possibly be "created equal" when they're all born into different circumstances?
Like, a platitude from the preamble of a centuries-old legal document isn't a fact or a binding moral precept.
6:42 "amreican"
6:39...AMREICAN?
If you are making it in life, you are lucky, If you have a roof to keep you dry and warm, food, health care, education etc, you are simply lucky. You had the right combination of childhood, education, parental guidance, brain chemistry, connections, investments, intelligence and information in order to get where you are.
You can't possibly think you were in control of any of those things. You were simply lucky. The only thing you have control over is what you do with what is given to you. But you don't control what was given to you, so the point is actually moot.
Those starving, in poverty, in social traps of backwards cultures and ideas, those with diseases and broken dreams, you were unlucky.
People hate that, because it brings into question their entire philosophy of life, karma, free-will, try and succeed. Everything the movies say, that if you work hard enough, you'll get somewhere.
We can't admit that some people just get the short end of the stick, because it's mathematically impossible for their to be winners if there are no losers.
I'm lucky, I feel an obligation to share any excess I have with those who just weren't lucky. I matter first, sure, but I don't need nor want a mansion while some people starve. I only want one as long as everyone at the VERY LEAST has their needs met.
I can't understand the callousness to think otherwise, or the complete fantasy world that is the guarantee that if you work hard enough, you're going to make it, and if you're not making it, you aren't working hard enough.
It's up there with believing in Santa. Didn't get any presents this year? That's because you didn't work hard enough to believe Billy. Too bad for you, you're lazy I guess.
People have the audacity to think they earned their luck. This shows very heavily in the bitterness of "MINE and I suffered, so you should too" culture in the USA and many other countries with high poverty rates. They think they earned things because they simply were lucky enough to get them.
You don't earn anything, not when there are people who work twice as hard as you and still don't make it. You were lucky. Things aren't balanced enough to just say we earned really anything, as in life we choose very little on what happens to us.