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| Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit |
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| Transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism |
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| An economic system that includes a mix of capitalism and socialism |
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| Dealing with political policies and economic processes, their interrelations and their influence on social institutions |
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| Corporation consisting of number of subsidiary companies |
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| A person or group of persons involved in business with governmental protection and tax breaks |
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| Control of a market by a single business firm |
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| Scarceness of merchants, partial monopoly over a certain industry |
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| A voluntary association of citizens that attempt to influence public policy |
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| Discrepancy in opportunities, status, attitudes between men and women |
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| Mutual respect between various groups in a society for one another's cultures which allows minorities to express their own culture without prejudice |
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| Countries military establishment and those industries producing arms, or other military materials |
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| Military Industrial Complex |
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| A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military, industrial and government leaders who control the fate of the US |
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| Government protects health and well being of it's citizens |
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| Deep reaching change that alters the way authority, capital, information and responsibility flows into an organization |
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| Various Structural Changes in the Economy |
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| Elimination of barriers of trade, communication and cultural exchange |
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Good jobs: Primary Jobs
Bad jobs: Periphery Jobs |
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| The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society |
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| Social actions become based on considerations of teological efficiency or calculations rather than motivations derived from morality, etc... Behavior of a capitalist market |
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| Rationalization of Society |
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| The process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society, both in the US and globally |
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| Reducing the level needed to complete an assigned task |
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| Organization of workers for fair treatment and wages. |
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| People related to you by blood or marriage |
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| People of your choosing invited to share your life |
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| The union of two people that want to spend their lives together |
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| Relationship or closeness between two entities |
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| The practice of living together without marrying |
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| Report by Daniel P. Moynihan that stated the lack of nuclear family would hinder blacks from progress |
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| The act of marrying a new spouse and merging pre-existing familial bonds |
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| An unadopted child under the care and custody of the state and it's respective employees |
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| Breakthroughs in the field of reproduction which allow otherwise barren women and lesbian couples the opportunity for impregnation |
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| Reproductive Technologies |
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| Scientific study of population |
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| Number of live births per 1,000 babies in a year |
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| Number of deaths per 1,000 babies under one year of age |
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| Numbers of deaths in infants under one year per 1,000 live births |
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| The point at which a modern population replaces itself without immigration- 2.1 children per woman |
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| Popularized the economic theory of rent, is widely known for theories on population and its' increase and decrease to various factors |
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| A term used to describe the change from high birth/death rates to low birth/death rates |
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| Demographic Transition Theory |
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| A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole |
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| A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to visit |
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| A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations |
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| Immanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited |
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| Period in history considered to have began with the first use of the atomic bomb |
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| Military strategy developed during the Cold War; use of threats as a means to deter crises |
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| International disarmament, or arms limitation, by mutual consent |
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| Use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims |
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| Dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies to monitor all forms of communications in the name of "national security" |
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| United States P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act |
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| A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learning |
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| The level of achievement reached in an academic setting and the potential to be educationally tracked towards either a college career or a vocational job |
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| Non financial, social assets like education and intellect that will promote social ladder climbing |
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| The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scoring and other seemingly discriminatory criteria |
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| The tendency of people to respond to and act on the basis of stereotypes, leading to validation of false definitions |
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| An educational setting the lesson is administered solely in English and English is the only language allowed to be spoken in the classroom |
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| The use of two or more languages in particular settings, such as workplace or educational facilities, treating each language as legitimate |
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| A special form of education, catered to those students with developmental and mental disabilities |
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| Standards of behaviors that are deemed proper by society and taught subtly in schools |
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| Public school offering special instruction unavailable elsewhere and designed to attract a diverse student body |
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| Publicly funded independent school established by teachers, parents, etc. |
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| School choice program in which public funds are transferred to public or private schools of the parents choice |
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| An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment |
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| A situation in which our relationship to the environment, while yielding short term benefits, will have profound long term consequences |
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| Movement based on the argument that the way of life in rich countries is unsustainable because it involves huge resource and environmental costs. |
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| This is a serious cause of global trouble |
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| Marine Biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement |
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| Referring to policies and regulations that disproportionately burden minority communities with negative environmental impacts |
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| Culture that is self sustaining |
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| Ecologically Sustainable Culture |
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