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55 Cards in this Set
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Social Stratification
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Hierarchical arrangement of large social groups
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Resources
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Anything valued in a society
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Life chances (Weber)
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Individuals have access to important resources such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care.
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Open System
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More flexible with peoples achieved status's
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Social Mobility
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The movement from one level to another
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Inter generational mobility
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Social movement from one generation to the next
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Intra generational mobility
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Social movement of individuals within their own lifetime
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closed System
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Not flexible, tight
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Slavery
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Extreme form of stratification
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Caste System
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Status chose at birth because of parents
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Apartheid
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Separation of races
ex: North and South Africa (south will always dom) |
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Caster systems fact
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Grow weaker as industries grow bigger
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Class System
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Type of strat based on ownership and control of resources and type of work people do.
-half achieved, half heredity |
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Vertical Mobility
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Moving up or down in a class
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Marx
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Class position= work position
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Capitalist class
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Those who own the means of production (rich)
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Working class
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must sell labor to get by
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Allenation
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A feeling of powerlessness and estrangement from others and oneself
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(Marx) Class conflict
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Struggle between the working class and capitalist
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Weber
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All about the people you have ties with
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Prestige
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The respect w/ status positions regarded by others
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power
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Individual achieve their goal w. out opposition from others
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Socioeconomic status (SES)
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A combined measure such as income, occupation, education
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Pink-collar occupations
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Low paying
ex-cashier, day care, resturant |
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Relative Poverty
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Able to afford basic necessities but unable to maintain an average standard of living
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Feminization of poverty
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Woman are disproportionally represented among individuals living in poverty
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Poverty rates
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White: 12%
African American- 25.8% Asian American- 12.5% |
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Race is
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social, historical, and cultural production
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Rates
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African Americans- 12%
Asian Americans-7% Native Americans-1% Passific Islander- 2% Hispanic-15% |
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Job Deskilling
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A reduction in the proficiency needed to perform a specific job that leads to a corresponding reduction in the wages for that job
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Meritocracy
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A hierarchy in which all positions are rewarded based on peoples ability and credentials
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Global Stratification
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Uneven distribution of wealth, power, and prestige
ex- different life styles in each nation |
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Modernization Theory
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A perspective that links global inequity to different levels of economic development and suggest that low income economics can move to middle and high income economics by achieving self sustained economic growth
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Dependency Theory
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Global poverty low income countries have been exploited by high income countries
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Core nations
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Enjoy profit from world economy
Ex-Europe |
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Semi-peripheral nations
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More developed then peripheral nations but less developed than core nations
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Peripheral Nations
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Nations are dependent on core nations, uneven patterns of urbanization
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Individual discrimination
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When a person directly discriminates against another.
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Institutional discrimination
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How social institutions and processes do not allow for equal competition, resources, or treatment among people in various racial
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Diversity/multicultural/ethnic pluralism
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Involves tolerating & celebrating racial ethnic cultural differences.
ex- china towns |
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Group threat theory
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Dom group gets upset when lower get the upper hand so they use racial combacks
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Affirmative action
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Level the playing field
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Patriarchies
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Men control disproportional amount of power
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Subordinate group
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A group who's groups are disadvantaged because of physical or cultural reasons
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Prejudice
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A negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members from other groups
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Scapegoat
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A person or group that is incapable of offering resistance to the hostility or aggression of others
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Authoritarian personality
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A personality type characterized by excessive conformity, submissiveness to authority, intolerance, insecurity, stero type thinking
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Genocide
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Deliberate, killing of an entire people or nation
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Assimilation
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A process by which members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups become absorbed into the dominate culture
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Ethnic pluralism
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The coexistence of a variety of distinct racial and ethnic groups within our society
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Internal colonialism
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Ethnic groups that is placed under political control
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Split labor market
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High paid, low paid
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Transsexual
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A person who believes they were born in the wrong sex body
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Body consciousness
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How people feel about their bodies
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Matriarchy
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System organized by women
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