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| conditions in which members of a society enjoy different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power |
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| structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power |
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| people's salaries and wages |
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| material assets such as land, stocks, and other properties |
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| a social position that is "assigned" to a person by society without regard for that person's unique talents or characteristics |
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| a social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts |
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| the most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or a group |
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| estate system (feudalism) |
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| requires peasants to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other services |
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| a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility |
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| hereditary system of rank, usually religiously dictated, that be tend to be fixed and immobile |
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| an economic system in which the means of production are held largely in private hands, and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits |
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| capitalist class owns the means of production, such as factories and machinery |
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| a subjective awareness of common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about social change |
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| an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective positions |
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| people who have the same prestige of lifestyle |
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| a group of people who have a similar lever of wealth and income |
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| the ability to exercise one's will over others |
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| measuring social class views class largely as a statistical category |
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| the respect and admiration that an occupation hold in a society |
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| the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation |
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| socioeconomic status (SES) |
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| a measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation |
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| a minimum level of subsistance that no family should be expected to live below |
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| a floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole |
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| a trend in which women constitute an increasing proportion of the poor people of the United States |
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| the opportunities people have to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences |
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| the movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society's stratification system to another |
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| one extreme of social moblitiy allows little or no possiblitiy of moving up |
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| implies that the position of each individual is influencedby his or her achieved status |
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| the movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank |
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| the movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank |
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| intergenerational mobility |
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| changes in the social position of children relative to their parents |
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| Intrageneralational mobility |
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| Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life |
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| continuing dependance of former colonies on foreign countries |
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| unequal economic and political relationships in which certain industrialized nations and their global corporations dominate the core of the world's economics system |
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| an approach to global stratificationthat contends that industrialized nations exploit developing countries for their own gain |
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| the worldwide integration of government plicies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas |
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| multinational corporations |
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| the commercial organizations that are headquatered in one country but do business throughout the world |
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| the far-reaching process through which developing nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristics of more developed societies |
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| the maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a people by a foreign power for an extended period |
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| the functionalist view that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations |
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