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| is a system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige. |
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| one in which wealth and power are more concentrated than ever before. richer than 2 and a half billion people on the planet |
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| he informal dominance of some nations over others by means of unequal conditions of economic exchange (as between industrial and Third World countries). |
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| multinational corporations |
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| that operate across many national boundaries, also help to maintain the global dominance of the most industrialized nations |
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| beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements |
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| a large group of people who rank close to one another in property( wealth), power, and prestige; according to Marx, one of two groups: capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor. |
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| movement up or down the social class ladder |
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| the position that someone occupies in a social group |
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| the total value of everything someone own, minus the depts |
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| refers to most U.S. poor families being headed by women |
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| a group who inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups |
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| having distinctive cultural characteristics |
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| people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination |
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| activities designed to discover, enhance, or maintain ethnic and racial identity |
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| institutional discrimination |
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| negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society institution; also called systemic discrimination |
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