25 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Poverty
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People lack the resources to satisfy the basic needs no person should be without.
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Relative Poverty
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Measured by comparing the situation of those at the bottom against an average situation or against the situation of others who are more advantaged
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Extreme Wealth
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Most excessive form of wealth.
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Social Stratisfication
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Systematic process in ranking people on a scale of social worth such that the ranking affects the life chances in unequal ways
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Life Chances
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The probability that a an individuals life will follow a certain path and will turn out a certain way
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Social Inequality
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A situation in which these valued resources and desired outcomes are distributed in such a way that people have unequal amounts and/or access to them
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Ascribed Statuses
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Social positions assigned on the basis of attributes people possess through no fault of their own (skin color, sex, hair)
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Achieved Status
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Attained through some effort of personal choice, effort, and ability
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Social Prestige
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A level of respect or admiration for a status apart from any person who happens to occupy it
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Esteem
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The reputation that someone occupying an ascribed or achieved status has earned from people who know and observe them
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Status Value
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Social value assigned to a status and people who possess the status are regarded and treated as more valuable or worthy than people who possess another status
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Caste System
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People are categorized and ranked by characteristics over which they have no control over and that they usually cannot change
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Class System
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People are ranked on the basis of achieved characteristics, such as merit, talent, ability, or performance
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Social Mobility
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Movement from one class to another
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Colonialism
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A form of domination in which a foreign power uses superior military force to impose its political, economic, social, and cultural institutions on a less fortunate population so it can control their resources, labor, and markets
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Decolonization
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A process in of undoing colonialism such that the colonized achieves independence from the so called mother country
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Neocolonialism
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A new form of colonism where more powerful foreign governments and foreign owned businesses continue to exploit the resources and labor of the post-colonial peoples
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Brain Drain
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The emigration from a country of the most educated and most talented people
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Class
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A person'a overall economic and social status in a system of social stratisfication
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Finance Aristocracy
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Bankers and stockholders being detached from the world of "work" and lived in obvious luxury among others who were very less fortunate
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Negatively Privilleged Property Class
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According to Weber, people lacking in skills, property, or employment or who depend on seasonal or sporadic employment; constitute the bottom of social class
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Positively Privillaged Property Class
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Weber's category for the people at the very top of the class
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Status Group
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Weber's term for a amorphous group of persons held together by virtue of a lifestyle that has come to be "expected of all those who wish to belong to the circle" and by the level of esteem in which other people hold in them
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Political Parties
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According to Weber, organizations oriented toward planned acquisition of social power and toward influencing social action no matter what it's content may be
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Urban Underclass
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Group of families and individuals in inner cities who live "outside the main stream of the American occupational system and who concequently represent the very bottom of the economic heirarchy
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SOC 100: Chap 9