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24 Cards in this Set
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bourgeoisie |
Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production |
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caste system |
a form of social stratification in which people's statuses are determined by birth and are lifelong |
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class consciousness |
Marx's term for awareness of a common identity based on one's position in the means of production |
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class system |
a form of social stratification based primarily on the possession of money or material possessions |
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colonialism |
the process by which one nation takes over another nation, usually for the purpose of exploiting its labor and natural resources |
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culture of poverty |
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 kings |
the idea that the king's authority comes from God |
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endogamy |
the practice of marrying within one's own group |
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false class consciousness |
Marx's term to refer to workers mistakenly thinking of themselves as capitalists |
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globalization of capitalism |
the adoption of capitalism around the world |
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ideology |
beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements |
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means of production |
the tools, factories, land, and investment capital used to produce wealth |
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meritocracy |
a form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit |
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neocolonialism |
the economic and political dominance of the Least Industrialized Nations by the Most Industrialized Nations |
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proletariat |
Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production |
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slavery |
a form of social stratification in which some people own other people |
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social mobility |
movement up or down the social class ladder |
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social stratification |
the division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige |
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world system theory |
states that industrialization led to four groups of nations |
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Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore |
functionalists who said that inequality is universal because it motivates the most qualified members of society to strive for the most important social positions |
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
wrote about slavery in the US, noting that over time the South became committed to keeping African Americans in slavery and killing those who rebelled against the institution |
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John Kenneth Galbraith |
argued that the Least Industrialized Nations remain poor because their own culture holds them back |
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Karl Marx |
concluded that social class depended exclusively on the means of production; an individual's social class was determined by whether or not he owned the means of production |
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Max Weber |
argued that social class was based on three components: property, prestige, and power |
