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28 Cards in this Set
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Extreme discrimination
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Apartheid
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A quality given to an individual by circumstances of birth
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Ascribed status
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One’s place in the stratification system
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Caste system
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The social structural position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural resources of society
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Class
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The perception that a class structure exists along with a feeling of shared identification with stress in one’s class
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Class consciousness
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The major causes of poverty to the absence of work values and the irresponsibility of the poor
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Culture of poverty
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Typically measured as the total years of formal education
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Educational attainment
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The ownership of property and the exercise of power is monopolized by an elite who have total control over societal resources
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Estate system
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The class consciousness of subordinate classes who had internalized the view of the dominant class
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False consciousness
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The process whereby a growing proportion of the poor are women and children
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Feminization of poverty
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A belief system that tries to explain and justify the status quo
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Ideology
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The amount of money brought into a household from various sources during a given year (wages, investment income, dividends, etc.)
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Income
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The opportunities that people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class
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Life chances
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The midpoint of all household income
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Median income
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A system in which one’s status is based on merit or accomplishments
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Meritocracy
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The subjective evaluation people give to jobs as better or worse than others
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Occupational prestige
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The figure established by the government to indicate the amount of money needed to support the basic needs of a household
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Poverty line
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The value with which different groups or people are judged
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Prestige
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The social structural hierarchical position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural resources of society
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Social class
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The process by which different statuses in any group, organization, or society develop
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Social differentiation
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A person’s movement over time from one class to another
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Social mobility
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A relatively fixed hierarchical arrangement in society by which groups have different access to resources, power, and perceived social worth; a system of structured social inequality
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Social stratification
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A measure of class standing, typically indicated by income, occupational prestige, and educational attainment
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Socioeconomic status
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An established position in a social structure that carries with it a degree of prestige
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Status
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The process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system
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Status attainment
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Federal program by which grants are given to states to fund welfare
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
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A grouping of people, largely minority and poor, who live at the absolute bottom of the socioeconomic ladder in urban areas
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Urban underclass
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The monetary value of what someone actually owns, calculated by adding all financial assets and subtracting debts; also called net worth
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Wealth
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