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| condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, and power. |
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| a structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society. |
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| a social position assigned to a person by society withour reguard for the person's unique talents or characteristics. |
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| a social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. |
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| hereditary systems of rank usually religiously dictated, that tend to be fixed and immobile. |
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| a class system is a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility. |
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| an economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits. |
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| karl marx's term for the capitalist class, comprising the owners of the means of production. |
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| karl marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society. |
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| an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately refect its objective position. |
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| the respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society. |
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| the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation. |
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| many ways to measure social class. |
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| refers to a minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below. |
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| floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole. |
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| long-term poor people who lack training and skills |
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| people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences. |
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| movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another. |
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| the position of each individual is influenced by the person's achieved status. encourages competition. |
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| little or no possibility of moving upward in society. |
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| moving from one social position to another of the same rank. |
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| movement from one social position to another of a different rank |
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| changes in the social position of children relative to their parents. |
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| change in social position within a person's adult life. |
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| the worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas. |
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| multinational corporations |
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| commercial organizations that are headquartered in on country and do business throughout the world. |
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| a group that is set apart based on obvious physical differences. |
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| a group that is set apart based on national origin or distinctive cultural patterns |
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| social construction of race |
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| the process by which people come to define a group as a race. |
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| unreliable generalizations about all members of a group. |
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| physical differences are more noticeable than ethnic differences ethnic stratification can change more readily than racial stratification because racial stratification is based on physical appearance, which is more noticeable. |
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| the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups based on some type of arbitrary bias. |
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| refers to an invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender, race, or ethnicity. |
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| institutional discrimination |
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| the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society. |
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| positive efforts to recruit minority members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities. |
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| the process by which a person for sakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture. |
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| the physical seperation of two groups of people in terms of residence, workplace, and social events. |
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| groups that succeed economically, socially, and educationally without resorting to confrontations with Whites. |
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| potential for conflict is present whenever some have authority or control and others are subject to it. |
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| prejudices and discrimination based on age. |
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