Social Class
Chapter 5 Discussion Questions

• How do the higher social classes manage their power to sustain their class position from one generation to the next?
  
• What is the relationship between class and status? Do they reinforce or conflict with each other?
  
• What are the economic and social forces that effect change in occupational structures? Are we doomed to follow the dictates of a global economy?
  
• How important is social class in contemporary societies? Is society classless or class-ridden?