Social Stratification Quiz #2

Match the description on the left with the correct term on the right.

people employed in low-skill jobs with the lowest pay who do not earn enough to rise out of poverty
people typically unemployed who came from families that have been poor for generations
the absence of enough money to secure life’s necessities
a measure of poverty based on the economic disparity between those at the bottom of a society and the rest of the society
a trend in U.S. society in which women and children make up an increasing proportion of the poor
adoption of the ideas of the dominant class by the less powerful class
identification with the goals and interests of a social class