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| three types of statifications systems |
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| slavery systems, caste systems, class systems |
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| three major causes in slavery |
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| debt, violation of the law, war and conquest |
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| directly linking physical characteristics to intellectual or psychological characteristics |
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| layering of nations and people based on power property and prestige...does not apply to individuals |
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| divide and conquer strategy |
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| keep poor european americans and african americans from uniting. |
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| the rend in which women are disproportionately represented among individuals livign in poverty due to divorce, unwed births, less paid, lack of day care |
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| closed system- status determined by birth and lifelong. endogamy |
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| open system- based on money or occupation |
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| class position is based on peoples relationship to the means of production...capitalists maintain their position by controlling the society's superstructure |
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| wealth (property) prestige (status) power-socioeconomic status |
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| how we measure social class-defines human worth |
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| weberian model of the us class structure |
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| gilbert and kahl's model-education occupation of the family head and family income |
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| marxian model of the US class structure |
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| based on people's relationshp to others in the production process- wrights model- |
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| capitalist class-managerial class(contradictory class location) small business class, working class |
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| to describe inequalities among groups within human societies- class status and power |
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| all the goods and services produced within a country's economy during a given year |
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| plus the net income earned outside the country |
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| functionalist approach, belief in free market capitalism |
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| low income economies can move up by achieving self sustained economies. |
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| 4 stages of economic development |
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| traditional stage, take off stage, technological maturity, and high mass consumption |
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| the modernization thoery makes low income nations seem inferior |
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| transnational corporations |
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| world economy is based on it . makes boundaries obsolete |
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| the first nations to industrialize turned other nations into their plantations and mines-britain |
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| core nations, semiperipheral and peripheral |
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| nations in which capitalism first developed |
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| nations whose economies stagnated because they grew dependent on trade with core nations |
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| nations that are primarily limited to seling cash crop to the core nations. |
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| the new international division of labor theory |
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| high income countries and transnational corps shift their operations to the most cost -effective areas. |
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| worldwide networks of labor and production processes yielding finished product |
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| emphasize the role of appropriate government policies to support economic development. |
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| emphasize the role of appropriate government policies to support economic development |
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