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17 Cards in this Set
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Social Stratification |
A system in which groups of people are deivided into layers according to their realtive property, power and prestige. |
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Causes of Slavery: |
3 Factors: Debt, Crime, and War. |
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Conditions of Slavery |
In some place, Slavery was Temporary. Slavery was not necessarily inheritable. Slaves where not necessarily powerless and poor. |
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Ideology |
Beliefs that justify social arrangements, making those arrangements seem necessary and fair. |
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Caste System |
Birth determines status, which is lifelong. |
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Endogamy |
Marriage within their own group, and prohibit intermarriage |
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Ritual Pollution |
Touching an inferior caste contaminates to superior caste: Keep contact between castes to a miniumum |
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India's religious Castes |
Brahman Kshatriya Vaishya Shudra Dalit |
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Ablution |
Washing rituals, to restore purity. Example: If a dalit touches someone of higher caste, that person becomes unclean. Even the shadow is untouchable. |
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Class System |
Is based primarily on money or material possessions, which can be acquired. |
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Social Mobility |
Movement up or down the class lader |
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Global Superclass |
One in which wealth and power are more concentrated than ever before |
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Karl Marx: The Means of Production |
The tools, factories, l and and investments capital used to produce wealth. |
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Lumpenproletariat |
People living on the margin of society, such as beggars, vagrants, and criminals |
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Class Consciousness |
a shared identity based on their positoin in the means of production |
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False class consciousness |
workers mistakenly think of themselves as capitalists. |
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Max Weber: Property, Power, and Prestige |
Social Class: 3 Parts: Property, Power, and Prestige. Property: (or Wealth) standing in society Power: Ability to control others, even over their objections Prestige: People tend to admire wealthy and powerful |
