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sociology 150
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
10/27/2011

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Socio-Economic Status 
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is a combination of one’s education, occupation, and income.   
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Credentialed societies 
Definition
societies which use diplomas or degrees to determine who is eligible for a job 
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Life chances 
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are an individual’s access to basic opportunities and resources in the marketplace
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Educational attainment 
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 is the number of years of school completed 
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 educational achievement 
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to how much the student has learned in terms of reading, writing, and arithmetic. 
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Bureaucratic ritualism 
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is the habit of following the rules and procedures and forgetting the main purpose of the bureaucracy’s mission
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transparency 
Definition
the creation of rules, regulations, and guidelines to be followed by all students, teachers, and parents. Transparency is a bureaucratic effort to be open, fair, and legally protected. It also creates a culture of a bureaucracy rather than a culture of learning. Students come to feel like a number and not an individual. Students get bored, disheartened, and fall into the daily routines and become somewhat a part of the bureaucracy. This can be fatal to learning and creativity. 
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economy 
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is a system of producing and distributing goods and services and can be local, state, national, international, and global. 
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Communism 
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is an extreme socialistic economy with extreme governmental management of goods and services along with management of public and private ideologies. Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and China are a few remaining national-level communistic economies. 
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democratic socialism 
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an economic system based on the merger of capitalism and socialism that often is accompanied by vague boundaries between governmental management of goods and services and diminished “hands-off” governmental involvement in the individual pursuit of economic stability
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primary economic sector 
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is the part of economic production involving agriculture, mining, fishing, and materials acquisition
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secondary economic sector 
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the part of the economic production involving manufacturing (factories and home-based)
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tertiary economic sector 
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work which involves providing a service to others such as food, retail, computer processing, or information management 
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 Supply 
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is the availability of goods and services in the marketplace 
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Demand 
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is the desire in the marketplace for goods and services 
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