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| being at ease in more than one cultural setting |
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| The idea that some cultures dominate other cultures and that cultural domination by one culture leads inevitably to the destruction of subordinated cultures and their replacement by the culture in power. |
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| A set of rights that should be accorded to all human beings everywhere in the world |
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| Living permanently in settings surrounded by people with cultural backgrounds different from your own and struggling to define the degree to which the cultural beliefs and practices of different groups should or should not be accorded respect and recognition by wider society. |
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| Attitude toward the world in which people submit to the governmentality of the capitalist market while trying to evade the governmentality of nation states |
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| strageties and effects employed by managers technocrats and professionals who regularly move across state boundaries who seek both to circumvent and benefit from different nation-state regimes |
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| Rights and obligations of citizenship accorded by the laws of a state |
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| Long distance nationalist |
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| Member of a dissapora begin to organise in support of nationalist struggles in their homeland or to agitate for a state of their own. |
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| the actions people take regardless of their legal citizenship to assert their membership in a state and to bring about political change. |
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| Migrant populations that share an identity that live in a variety of different locations around the world. A form of transboarder identity that doesn't focus on nation building |
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| In world system theory the nations specializing in banking finance and industrial production |
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| Reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces on a large scale |
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| In world system theory those exploited former colonies of the core that supply the core with cheap food and raw materials |
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| In world system theory states that have played a peripheral role in the past but now have the capacity and resources to possibly achieve core status. |
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| A theory that argues that the success of independent capitalist states has required the failure of dependent colonies or nations whose economies have been distorted to serve the needs of the dominant states. |
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| A theory that argues that the social change occuring in non Western societies under colonial rule was necessary and inevitable prelude to higher levels of social development that had been reached by the more modern states |
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| A theory that argues that from the late fifteenth century European capitalism began to incorperate other regions and peoples into a world system whose parts are linked economically. but not politically. |
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| Ranked groups within a heirarchical stratified society whose membership is defined primarily in terms of wealth occupation or other economic criteria. |
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| Societies in which there is a permanent heirarchy that accords some members privileged access to wealth power and prestige |
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| A ranked group in a HSS that is closed prohibiting individuals to move from one caste to another |
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| A human population category whose boundaries allegedly correspond to distinct sets of biological attributes |
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| The systematic oppression of one or more socially defined races by another race that is justified in terms of one being biologically superior. |
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| An achieved status with a racial label in a system of stratification that is composed of open classlike categories to which racial labels are assigned. |
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| Social groups that are distinguished from one another by ethnicity |
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| A principle of social classification used to create groups based on selected cultural features such as language religion or dress. It emerged from historical processes that incorperate distinct social groups into a single political structure under conditions of inequality |
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| Groups of people believed to share the same history culture language and even physical substance |
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| An ideal political unit in which national identity and political territory coinside |
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| The international construction of a collective public identity the process that creates ethnicity in everyday life |
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| A form of negative racial or ethnic absolutism that encourages teh violent elimination of targeted groups. |
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| The attempt made by government to instill a sense of nationality into the citizens of a state. |
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| A nationalist program to define nationality in a way that preserves cultural domination of the ruling group while including enough cultural features from subordinated groups to ensure loyalty. |
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| The deliberate representation of particular identities ie class caste race as if they were the result of biology rather than history making them appear eternal. |
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| Marriage within a defined social group |
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| Marriage outside a defined social group. |
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| The transfer of wealth usually from parents to their daughter |
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| Family based on marriage at a min spousal pair and their children. |
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| A single parent household where the additional spouse is only occasionally present to not present at all. |
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| comprised of two generations parents and their unmarried children |
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| Three generations living together |
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| the union of previously divorced spouses uniting their families. |
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| no great differences in wealth power or prestige divide members from one another. |
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| social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating birth and nuturance. |
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| An institution that transforms the status of its participants carries implecations about sexual access gives offspring a position in society and establishes connections between the kin of the participants. |
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| The principle that a descent group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally. |
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| The principle that a descent group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other through links only through the mother or father. |
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| A descent group formed by members who believe they have a common ancestor even if they cannot specify genological evidence or links |
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| The blood relatives of descent groups who believe they can trace their descent from known ancestors |
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| tranfer of symbolically important goods in exchange for the bride on the occasion of their marriage. it represents comp for the loss of labor and childbearing purposes |
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| A mode of heirarchical social organization in which groups beyond the most basic emerge only in opposition to other groups on the same heirachical level. |
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| Social position assigned at birth |
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| A criterion employed in the analysis of kinship terminologies in which kinship terms referring to the mother's side of the family are distinguished from the fathers side of the family. |
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| Social positions people may attain later in life often as a result of effort. |
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| According to Durkheim the sense of fellow feeling and interdependance in a so called primative societies based on language and mode of livlihood. |
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| The sense of fellow feeling and interdependence in so called modern societies based on specializations of different social groups contributions from each group is necessary for the survival of society |
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| The relative unofficial bonds that people construct with one another that tend to be personal, affective and a matter of choice. |
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| Non-kin forms of social organization that initiate young people into social adulthood. The society contains knowledge know only to members. |
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| form of cultivation based on clearing of uncultivated land, burning the brushand planting crops in the enriched soil. |
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| Cultivation that employs plows, draft animals, irrigation etc. to bring more land under cultivation at one time. |
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| Neo-classical Economic Theory |
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| A formal attempt to explain the workings of capitalist enterprise, with attention to distribution. |
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| the exchange of goods calculated in terms of a multipurpose medium of exchange and standard of value, dictated by supply and demand. |
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The exchange of goods and services of equal value. Generalized-time nor value not specified
Balenced-Return expected within a certain time frame.
Negative-hope to get something for nothing. |
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| Mode of exchange that requires some form of centralized social organization to recieve economic contributions from all members of the group and to redistribute them in a way that provides for all of its members |
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| products of consciousness that purport to explain to people who they are and to justify their lives. |
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