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| 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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| 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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| according to world system theory, dominant capitalist center characterized by high levels of industrialization and urbanization |
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| 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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| the social movement (upward or downward) experienced by family members from one generation to the next. |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| according to world systems theory, nations that are more developed than peripheral nations but less developed than core nations. |
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| an extreme form of stratification in which some people are owned by others. |
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| 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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| The movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another |
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| the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources. |
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