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Sociology Final Exam
Ch. 7, 8, 9
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
05/02/2012

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Stratification

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structured social inequality, or, more specifically, systematic inequalities between groupd of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationships 

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social equality

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a condition whereby no differences in wealth, power, prestige, or status based on nonnatural conventions exist 

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ontological equality

 

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the notion that everyone is created equal in the eyes of God

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equality of opportunity

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the idea that inequality of condition is acceptbale so long as the rules of the game, so to speak, are fair

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