Audio Resource

Audio 1: Detroit Poverty Getting Worse  

Description: This podcast episode explores conditions in Detroit, the most impoverished major city in the United States. 

Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss the problem of neighborhood poverty.

Video Resources

Video 1: Is India’s Caste System Still Alive?

Description: This video provides an overview of the traditional Indian caste system and considers how vestiges of this system linger in Indian society today.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Identify characteristics of stratification in traditional and modern societies.

Video 2: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies

Description: In this TED Talk, Richard Wilkinson uses data to describe what happens when income equality grows.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Identify characteristics of stratification in traditional and modern societies.

Web Resource

Web 1: Social Mobility Is on the Decline, and With It the American Dream

Description: In this Business Insider article, Pedro Nicolaci da Costa explores the rise in U.S. inequality, the decline in social mobility, and the imperiled notion of the American Dream.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Describe dimensions of socioeconomic inequality in the United States.