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Sociology
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/06/2010

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Caste system
Definition
A system of social inequality in which people’s status is permanently determined at birth based their parent’s ascribed characteristics.
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Class System
Definition
a type of stratification based on the ownership and control of resources and on the type of work that people do.
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Core Nations
Definition
according to world system theory, dominant capitalist center characterized by high levels of industrialization and urbanization
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Dependence theory
Definition
the belief that global poverty can at least partially be attributed to the fact that the low-income countries have been exploited by high-income countries.
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Intergeneration mobility
Definition
the social movement (upward or downward) experienced by family members from one generation to the next.
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Life Chances
Definition
Max Weber’s terms for the extent to which individuals have access to important societal resources such as, food clothing, health, education and healthcare.
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Modernization theory
Definition
a perspective that links global inequality to different levels of economic development and suggests that low- income economies can move to middle and high income economies by achieving self-sustained economic growth.
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Peripheral Nations
Definition
according to world systems theory, nations that are dependent on core nations for capital, have little or no industrialization (other than what may be brought in by core nations), and have uneven patterns of urbanization.
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Semi peripheral Nations
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according to world systems theory, nations that are more developed than peripheral nations but less developed than core nations.
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Slavery
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an extreme form of stratification in which some people are owned by others.
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Social Exclusion
Definition
Manuel Castells’s term for the process by which certain individual and groups are systematically barred from access to positions that would enable them to have an autonomous livelihood in keeping with the social standards and values of a given social context.
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Social Mobility
Definition
The movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another
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Social Stratification
Definition
the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources.
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