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| Involves the public display and use of expensive items. |
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| The result of hard work and perseverance by an individual. |
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| The level of respect accorded to individuals and groups of people, especially on the basis of their occupation or profession. |
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| When people are able to satisfy their basic needs and have money left over to spend on goods and services. |
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| The systematic ranking of categories of people on a scale of social worth, which affects how valued resources are distributed in a society. |
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| A group of society's elite. Generals, Presidents, and CEO's |
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| The ability to achieve one's goals despite opposition from others. |
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| Intergenerational mobility |
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| Changes in the social positions of children in comparison to their parents. |
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| States that societies started as simple and traditional, then moved, or are moving toward, being modern (developed) societies. |
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| The movement from one social position to another of a different rank and/or prestige. This change can be in an upward or downward direction. |
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| Based on stratification, classifying people at birth into social levels in which they remain. |
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| The feeling or belief that you are poor when you compare yourself with other people. |
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| Rank people based on their social prestige. |
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| The shared awareness class members have of their status and rank within a society, as well as their interests. |
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| One of the theories attributed to Karl Marx to mean that social differentiation and class conflict resulted from economic factors. |
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| A social position that is held by a person and characterized by rights and duties. |
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| Things that can be quickly converted into cash when cash is needed. |
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| Stratification systems in which an individual's position is not fixed but instead is relatively open, allowing the individual opportunities to move between levels. |
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| A system in which people are rewarded on the basis of their talents and achievements. |
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| The number of goods and services that can be purchased with a unit of currency. |
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| The movement from one social position to another. |
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| The condition of powerlessness, estrangement or dissociation from the workplace and or society. |
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| Intragenerational mobility |
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| Changes in social position over the course of person's lifetime. |
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| The indirect continuation of colonialism through economic means. |
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| Made up of people in relatively similar situations with roughly the same power, income, and prestige. |
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| A belief in ideas that are contrary to one's own best interests. |
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| The average number of years a member of the population can expect to live. |
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| Describes people who are desperately poor and may not know where their next meal will come from. |
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| Involves societal events that allow entire groups of people to move up or down the social structure together. |
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| The movement from one social position to another of the same rank and/or prestige. |
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| The process by which the powerful and rich people fence (enclose) their land in order to exclude others. |
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| Advocates argue that some countries are poorer and less developed because they are dependent on more developed countries. |
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| When people experience mismatch between their statuses, or when a person experiences mismatching statuses him or herself. |
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