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| Inequalities due to personal characteristics resulting from differences in opportunities such as sex or skin color |
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| Social hierarchies, occupations and ranks of wealth; able to move through ranks via things like job promotions |
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| Why is the lifetime risk of poverty so high in the USA? |
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| Low paying minimum wage and inability to pull families out of poverty once they're impoverished. |
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| Percent of the US population that will spend some of their lifetime in poverty? |
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| Master/Slave Relationship |
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| 2 directional dialetic relationship based on master's need for slave for things like food, a driver and getting them dressed. Slave's need for protection, food and shelter from master. |
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| economically based, loose mobility |
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| religion-based, no mobility |
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| politically based, limited mobility. you are what your parents are. |
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| social groups with intimate relationships |
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| groups marked by impersonal relationships |
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| gap between two groups or two people with complementary resources |
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| organizational isomorphism |
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| a constraining process that forces the organization to resemble others that face the same set of environmental conditions |
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| any relationship between people that can facilitate the actions of others |
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| symbolic and interactional resources that people use to their advantages in various situations |
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| when members of a negatively viewed stereotyped group are placed in a situation where they may confirm those stereotypes |
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| majority of resources given to a few people |
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| form of wealth that can be stored for the future |
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