Sociology Test #3

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Bourgeoisie

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Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production

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Caste system

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A form of social stratification in which people's statuses are determined by birth and are lifelong

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Class consciousness

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Marx's term for awareness of a common identity based on ones position in the means of production

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Class sustem

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A form of social stratification based primarily on the possession of money or material items

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Colonialism

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The process by which one nation takes over another nation, usually for the purpose of exploiting it's labor and natural resources

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Culture of
Poverty

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The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children

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Divine right of jungs

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The idea that the kings authority comes directly from god, in an interesting gender bender, applies to queens

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Endogamy

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The practice of marrying within ones own group

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False class consciousness

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Marx's term to refer to workers identifying with the interests or capitalists

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Globalization of capitalism

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Capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globes dominant economic system

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Ideology

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Beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements

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Means of productin

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The tools, factories, land and investment capital used to produce wealth

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Meritocracy

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A form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit

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Multinational corporstions

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Companies that operate across national boundaries, also called transnational corporations

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Neocolonialism

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The economic and political dominance of the least industrialized nations by the most industrialized nations

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Proletariat

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Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production

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Slavery

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A form of social stratification in which some people own other people

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Social mobility

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Movement up or down the social class ladder

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Social stratification

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The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige, applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society or
Other group

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World system theory

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Economic and political connections that tie the worlds countries together

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Anomic

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Durkheims terms for a condition of society in which people become detached from the norms that usually guide their behavior