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27 Cards in this Set
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Open system |
The stratification that facilitates social mobility with individual achievement and personal merit determining social rank |
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Closed system |
People are ranked by a status you are born into |
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Caste system |
The rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes |
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Estate ststem |
A medieval class system in which society was divided into three states- clergy, nobility and commoners |
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Intergenerational mobility |
Refers to changes in social status between different generations within the same family |
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Intragenerational mobility |
Refers to the changes in someone's social mobility throughout the course of his or her lifetime |
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Structural mobility |
Movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between layers or tiers in an open system of social statification |
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Exchange mobility |
The sociological concept that suggests society is made up of classes and that these classes maintain a relatively static number of people |
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Political economy |
Interplay between economics, law and politics and how institutions develop in different social and economic ststems |
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Regressive tax |
A tax that as income rises, the proportion one pays in tax declines |
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Progressive tax |
A tax that rises as ones income rises |
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Supply side policy |
Policies that maintain that suppliers should be given incentives to produce more, which will eventually increase demand |
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Demand side policy |
Policies that push to put money in the pockets of workers and consumers to generate economic activity and create demand |
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Sexism |
Prejudice stereotyping or discrimination against women on the basis of sex |
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Occupational sex segregation |
When Occupations have remained highly dominated by either men or women |
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Glass ceiling |
An unofficial he acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession especially affecting women and members of minorities |
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Comparable worth |
The principle that men and women should be compensated equally for work requiring comparable skills responsibilities and effort |
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Feminism |
The advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political social and economic equality to men |
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Welfare state |
A system where the government undertakes to protect the health and wellbeing of its citizens |
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Minority group |
Term referring to a category of people differentiated from the social manority |
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Prejudice |
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or experience |
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Discrimination |
Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things ESP on the group's of race age or sex |
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Institutional diwxrimination |
Refers to unjust treatment of individuals or groups by Soviet and it's institutions as a whole, through unequal selection or bias, intentional or unintentional |
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Structural assimilation |
The incorporation into society of an ethnic groups but it is equal access to the major associations and institutions |
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Cultural assimilation |
The process by which a person or groups language and or culture come to resemble those of another group |
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Patriarchy |
A system of society or government in which the father is the head of the family and descent traced through the mail mine |
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Gender |
The state of being male or female using social and cultural differences |
