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Marx's term for the exploited class, a mass of workers who do not own the means of production |
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The practice of marrying within one's own group
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A form of social stratification in which some people own other people |
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according to Weber, a large number of people who rank close to one another in powered, poverty, and prestige; according to Marx's, one of two groups; capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor
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movement up or down the social class ladder |
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the economic and political dominance of the least industrialized nations by the most industrialized nations |
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a form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit |
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| multinational corporations |
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companies that operate across many national boundaries; also called transnational corporations |
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beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements
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the tools, factories, land, and investment capital used to produce wealth |
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| Globalization of capitalism |
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capitalism (investing to make a profit within a rational system) becoming the global dominant economic system
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Karl Marx's term to refer to workers identifying with the interests of capitalists |
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performance stratification based primarily on possession of money and material possessions |
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| The assumptions that the behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to there children |
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The process by which one nation takes over another usually for the purpose of exploiting its labor and natural resources
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| Karl Marx's term for awareness of a shared identity based on one's position in the means of production |
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| Karl Marks's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production. |
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the idea that the king's authority comes directly from God |
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the division of large number of people into layers according to their relative power, poverty, and perstige; applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society, or other group
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| economic and political connections that tie world countries together |
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| a form of social stratification in which one's status is determined by birth and is lifelong |
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