Social Stratification in the U.S.

This webquest is all about social stratification. It deals primarily with wealth and poverty in the U.S. It looks at class and social status and its affects on wealth and poverty for the different classes of people. My hope is that you can use this lesson in your classroom to help your students be more aware of how  stratification affects society as a whole.

Standards

Arkansas Academic Standards- Sociology

Social Differentiation and Social Stratification
1. Explain how class is a social structure.
2. Describe the class structure of the United States.
3. Identify the different components of class inequality.
4. Analyze the extent of social mobility in the United States.
5. Compare and contrast theoretical models of class inequality.
6. Investigate the causes and consequences of U.S. poverty.

Content Standard 1: Students will understand the difference between stratification and differentiation.

Learning Target:
1. Recognize the difference between estate, class and caste.
2. Compare and contrast the theoretical perspectives used by sociologists
(e.g., functional perspective, conflict perspective, interaction perspective)

Social Mobility: Myths and Realities
Content Standard 2: Students will analyze the difference between social mobility and class consciousness.

Learning Target:
1. Defining Social Mobility
2. The Extent of Social Mobility
3. Class Consciousness

Poverty
Content Standard 3: Students will evaluate the definition of poverty and the causes of poverty

Learning Target:
1. Analyze the definition of poverty
2. Discover who are the poor
3. Investigate the causes of poverty
4. Discuss the social and welfare policy

Credits

I would like to thank my instructor, Ms. Sharonda Lipscomb- Foundations of E-Learning, Spring 2017, University of Arkansas at Little Rock for her inspiration and motivation in attempting this WebQuest creation. Without this class,under her leadership, I would have never looked at such a tool to utilize in my classroom. With more practice, I am sure I will get better with designing my webquests.

The Zunal website had plenty of examples to help guide me in my webquest creation. I appreciate the help.
Images were gathered from just searching Google. Thank you Google!

Other

Arkansas Department of Education. Revised 2014. Sociology Social Studies Curriculum Framework. Retrieved from https://adedata.arkansas.gov on January 22, 2017.