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Chapter 4 Flash Cards
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Sociology
12th Grade
02/04/2010

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Cultural Evolution

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The process of change that results from a society’s gaining new information, particularly technology

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Proletariat

Definition

                                

          people who provide labor necessary to operate factories and other productive enterprises.

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Social Conflict

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struggle between segments of society over valued resources

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Social Institutions

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                  the major spheres of social life, or society’s subsystems, organized to meet basic human needs.

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Alienation

Definition

the experience of isolation resulting from powerlessness

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Capitalists

Definition

people who own factories and other productive enterprises

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Communism

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                       a hypothetical economic and political system in which all members of a society are socially equal

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Class consciousness

Definition

Marx’s term for the recognition by workers of their unity as social class in opposition to capitalists and to capitalism itself

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