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| the relative lack of access to the latest technologies among low-income groups, racial and ethnic minorities, rural residents and the citizens of developing countries. |
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| a set of cultural beliefs and practices that help to maintain powerful social economic and political interests. |
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| the process by which a relatively small number of people in the media industy control what material eventually reaches the audience |
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| print and electronic means of communication that carry messages to widespread audiences. |
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| the phenomenon in which the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and fails to act on the information regardless of how compeeling the issue. |
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| someone who influences the opinions and discussions of others. |
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| an unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual difference within the group. |
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| the maintenance of political, social, economic and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period |
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| an approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain. |
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| the worldwide integration of government policies cultures social movements and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas. |
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| the value of a nations goods and services |
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| universal moral rights possessed by all people because they are human |
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| the far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. |
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| a functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will dradually improve the lives of people in developing nations |
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| multinational corporation |
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| a commercial organization that is headquartered in one country but does business throughout the world. |
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| continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries. |
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| the monies that immigrants return to their families of orgin. also called migradollars |
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| a view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited. |
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| a minimum level of subsistence below which no family should be expected to live |
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| a social position that a person attains largely through his or her own efforts. |
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| a social position that is assigned to a person by sovg without regard for |
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| a hereditary rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be fixed and immobile |
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| a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income |
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| in Karl Marxs view, a subjective awareness held my members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change. |
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| a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved charcteristics can influence social mobility |
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| a social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual social mobility |
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| a system of stratification under which peasants were required to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other services. |
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| the rep that a particular individual has earned within an occupation |
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| a term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude hed by members of a class that does not accurately reflect their objective position |
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| the movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same 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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| intragenerational mobility |
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| changes in a persons social positino within his or her adult life |
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| a technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation education income and place of residence |
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| a social system in which the position of each individtual is influenced by his or her achieved status |
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| the ability to exercise one's will over others |
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| the respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society |
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| karl marxs term for the working class in capitalist society |
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| a floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole. |
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| a condition in which members of a society have differnt amounts of wealth prestige or power |
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| movement of individuals or groups from one position of a societys stratification system to another. |
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| a measure of social class that is based on income education and occupation |
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| people who have the same prestige or lifestyle, independant of their class positions |
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| a structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society |
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| the longterm poor people who lack training and skills |
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| the movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank |
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