• Home
  • Videos
  • Pics
  • Blog
  • Modules
  • Submit a Video
  • About Us
  @TheSocyCinema

@thesocycinema / videos

Land of the Free, Home of the Poor

10/12/2011

0 Comments

 
Picture
Americans underestimate U.S. economic inequality.
Tags: capitalism, class, economic sociology, inequality, wealth distribution, subtitles/CC, 11 to 20 mins
Year: 2011
Length: 11:46
Access:
YouTube

Summary: This PBS NewsHour report explores the extraordinary and rising levels of economic inequality in the U.S. The top 20% of Americans now hold 84% of U.S. wealth, and more and more families are falling out of the middle class. Yet, despite drastic increases in inequality, average Americans perceive their country to be relatively equal. While this clip is useful in that it draws upon economic research to support this claim about Americans' perceptions of economic inequality, students might find reporter Paul Solman's survey conducted on the streets of New York City to be espeically compelling. Time and again, Americans underestimate the extent of U.S. economic inequality. The clip highlights that most of the inequality is explained by gains made at the "tippy-top" -- that is, gains made by the super-rich. The clip features research showing that overall, Americans (both Democrats and Republicans) want more economic equality. A transcript of the clip is also available.

Check out other clips on The Sociological Cinema that address the
truth about the current U.S. economy and a survey conducted on the streets of NYC.  

Submitted By: Lindsey Baker

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Tags

    All
    00 To 05 Mins
    06 To 10 Mins
    11 To 20 Mins
    21 To 60 Mins
    61+ Mins
    Abortion/Reproduction
    Aging/Life Course
    Art/Music
    Biology
    Bodies
    Capitalism
    Children/Youth
    Class
    Commodification
    Community
    Consumption/Consumerism
    Corporations
    Crime/Law/Deviance
    Culture
    Demography/Population
    Disability
    Discourse/Language
    Du Bois
    Durkheim
    Economic Sociology
    Education
    Emotion/Desire
    Environment
    Food/Agriculture
    Foucault
    Gender
    Globalization
    Goffman
    Government/The State
    Health/Medicine
    Historical Sociology
    Immigration/Citizenship
    Inequality
    Intersectionality
    Knowledge
    Lgbtq
    Marketing/Brands
    Marriage/Family
    Marx/Marxism
    Media
    Methodology/Statistics
    Multiculturalism
    Nationalism
    Organizations/Occupations/Work
    Political Economy
    Politics/Election/Voting
    Prejudice/Discrimination
    Psychology/Social Psychology
    Race/Ethnicity
    Religion
    Rural/Urban
    Science/Technology
    Sex/Sexuality
    Social Construction
    Social Mvmts/Social Change/Resistance
    Sports
    Subtitles/CC
    Theory
    Violence
    War/Military
    Weber

    RSS Feed

    Tweets by @TheSocyCinema

    .

    Got any videos?

    Are you finding useful videos for your classes? Do you have good videos you use in your own classes? Please consider submitting your videos here and helping us build our database!

     

    Creative Commons License
​About Us      |      Facebook      |      Twitter      |      Pinterest      |      Tumblr
Creative Commons
  • Home
  • Videos
  • Pics
  • Blog
  • Modules
  • Submit a Video
  • About Us
✕