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Equality and Inequality
Vocab--Bon Villain
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
11/03/2008

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prestige
Definition
social resource reflected in other's good opinions, respect, and willingness to be influenced
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ranked societies
Definition
societies in which people or more usually kinship groups are ordered on a continuum in relation to each other
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egalitarian societies
Definition
societies in which all members have equal access to valued resources, including land, social prestige, wealth, and power
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stratified societies
Definition
societies in which people have differential access to valued resources, including land and property, social, prestige, wealth, and political power
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mobility
Definition
principle that people can move from membership in one social group to another
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race
Definition
cultural category that groups people according to so-called 'racial' distinctions
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ethnicity
Definition
social category based on a comples mis of ancestory, culture, and self-identification; can lose this by assimilation into dominant culture
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