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Caste System |
India's system of social stratification
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Class System |
a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born. A category or group of persons having a definite status in society which permanently determines their relation to other groups.
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Colonialism |
the maintenance of political, social, economic and cultural dominance over people by a foreign power for an extended period |
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Dependence Theory |
an approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain. |
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Modernization Theory |
a functionalists approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations |
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Multinational Corporation |
a commercial organization that is headquarted in one country but does business thruoughout the world |
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Neocolonialism |
Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries |
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Slavery |
It is an extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are owned by others as their property. |
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World Systems Analysis |
a view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploioted |
