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| Theory of social mobility, equality of opportunity, efficacy of schooling. |
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| Separation of worker from the product of his/her labor |
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| A system of stratification based on the rigid separation of racial and ethic groups |
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| An economic system in which the means of production are owned by private persons and operated for profit |
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| A social system in which the social order is relatively fixed. Individuals are assigned at birth to the ranked social and occupational groups of their parents |
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| Habits, experiences, behavior, ways of conceptualizing the world. |
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| follows for effective and efficient organization and coordination of production, distribution, and infrastructural requirements |
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| The dominant class makes ideologies of why they are at the top. ex. Medieval Europe, inequalities were divinely ordained and unchangeable. |
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| Restricted movement of labor. Mulitnational and transnational companies; free movement of capital and goods. Increasing power of world banks and IMF |
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| no formal system of social stratification. Hunter and Gatherers. |
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| Exploitative Theory of Social Stratification |
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| Social hierarchy is neither unavoidable, nor necessary; it has nothing to do with human nature. |
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| The number of women living in poverty, outnumbered the number of men by a ration of 4:3. over half households living in poverty are female headed |
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| A way of putting things in groups without any real scientific knowledge. |
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| Believed in the Exploitative Theory. Regards social classes as the rpimary basis of social stratificaiton. |
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| Socially constructed norms, ideas, and practices about masculinity and femininity that can change between cultures and within the same culture across time. |
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| Begins at birth, involves the daily reiteration fo particular gendered behaviors and attributes for males and females. |
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| formed and maintained through sex specific arrangements and division of labor across multiple institutions of a social structure |
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| The attributes and activities that a society or culture ascribes to a sex. |
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| The intensification of global interconnection resulting from the transnational flow of people, culture, commodities, capital, ideas, information, technologies across national and regional boundaries. |
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| ideas that sustain relations of power and domination |
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| Institutional or Structural Racism |
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| distinguished from bigotry or racial bias of individuals by the existence of systematic policies nad practices within a society's institutions or structures that have th effect of disadvantaging certain racial groups. |
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| Integrative Theory of Social Stratification |
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| Social hierarchy is inevitable and necessary for social integration and cohesion. |
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| Various axes of inequality (such as class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability) constantly interact with each other |
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| A theoretician of class that defines class as ownership of means of production. Believes in exploitative Theory |
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| A structure that allows buyers and sellers to exchange any types of goods, services and information. |
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| Land, factories, tools and raw materials needed for production |
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| means of production (land, labor, and technology) are privately owned |
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| A group of people whose perceived characteristics are popularly believed to be reflecting a more profound biological difference |
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| Unequal access to prestige, but not to econimic resources. Chiefs and spiritual man have authority and prestige, but no system privilege to access economic resources. |
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| Viewed brain sizes and concluded that Africans and Native Americans were socially and biologically inferior races. |
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| Physical differences between women and men |
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| A system of inequality in which some people are forced to work for others and owned as property |
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| processes which sustain or perpetuate characteristics of a given social structure or tradition over a period of time. |
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| The portion of a person's labor that is retained as profit by those who own or control the means of production |
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| Labor spent not for getting one's needs for subsistence/survival; but for getting the 'means' to meet one's "need" |
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