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17 Cards in this Set
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a wold in which nations are economically and politically interdependent
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modern world system
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single world system committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs
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capitalist world economy
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wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of using the means of production to produce a profit
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capital
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key claim of this theory is that an identifiable social system, based on wealth and power differentials, extends beyond individual states and nations
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world-system theory
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intermediate between core and periphery
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semiperiphery
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lowest nations in power, wealth and influence
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periphery
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two classes in stratification
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bourgeoisie and proletariat
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owners of factories, mines, large farms, and other means of production
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bourgeoisie
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working class, made of people who had to sell their labor to survive
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proletariat
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weber defined three dimensions of social stratification
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wealth power prestige
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features a substantial contrast between both capitalists and workers in the core nations and workers on the periphery
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world stratification system
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closed, hereditary systems of stratification that often are dictated by religion
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caste systems
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castelike system that legally maintained hierarchy, blacks, whites, and asians had their own seperate and unequal neighborhoods, schools, laws, and punishments
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apartheid
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status from family background, ethnicity, gender, religion
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ascribed status
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in this class system, individual achievement and personal merit would determine social rank
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open class system
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refers to a policy of extending the rule of a nation or empire, such as british empire, over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies
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imperialism
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refers to the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foregn power for an extended time
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colonialism
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