Chapter 9 Global Stratification – Flashcards
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WHAT is the division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property, power and prestige?
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Social Stratification
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What is true about slavery?
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common throughout history
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What is the difference between bonded labor and slavery?
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Bonder labor is voluntary (or arranged by parents)
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What refers to beliefs about the way that things ought to be that justify social arrangements?
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Ideology
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a persons status is a lifelong condition determined by birth in a WHAT?
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Caste System
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When one person marries within one's group?
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Endogamy
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A system from South Africa which separated racial-ethnic groups?
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Apartheid
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One of three groups or estates in medieval Europe?
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Clergy
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In a class system, what is the main basis for social stratification?
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Money
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The wealthiest 1% of the world own how many percent of the earths wealth?
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46%
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Gender is a basis of social stratification for WHAT societies in the world?
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Every
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The tools, factories, land and investment capital used to produce wealth make up the WHAT?
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Means of production
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The high bourgeoisie are WHAT?
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Capitalists
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Who are exploited because they do not own the means of production?
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Proletariat
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According to Marx, class consciousness refers to WHAT?
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Position in the means of production
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When worker identified with the interest of capitalists, Marx called it WHAT class consciousness?
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False
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WHAT Weber WHAT Marx viewed property as significant in deterring a person's standing in society?
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Both and
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WHAT Weber WHAT Marx viewed property as the only source of power?
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Not but
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Who believed that property could bring prestige and prestige could bring property?
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Weber
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WHO believe that stratification exists because it is functional for society?
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Functionalists
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David and Moore found that stratification of society is inevitable because for society to function WHAT?
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positions must be filled
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In a meritocracy, all positions are awarded on the basis of WHAT?
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Merit
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WHO suggest that conflict, not function is the reason that we have social stratification?
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Conflict Theorists
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Lenski suggested that the concept of WHAT is key?
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Surplus
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Medieval Europe provides an excellent example of elites maintaining stratification with WHAT?
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Soft control
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The divine right of kings asserts that the kings or queens authority comes from WHO?
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God
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Which is the most effective in maintaining societies stratification?
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Controlling peoples ideas
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To maintain power, elites attempt to WHAT information?
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Control
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What is true about technology and the elites?
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new technology makes it harder to control information
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What is the main way that the British perpetuate their class system?
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Education
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In the former soviet union, the main basis for ranking higher in the stratification system was WHAT?
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Membership in the communist party?
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Sixty percent of the world's population lives in WHAT?
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Least industrialised nations
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The US, cananda, UK, Japan, Australia and France are WHAT?
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The most industrialised nations
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Most of the countries of the former Soviet Union and its former satillites in Easter Europe fall into the category of WHAT?
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Industrialising nations
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The process of taking over another country?
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Colonialism
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This assumes that the values and behaviours of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people?
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culture of poverty
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According to sociologist Michael Harrington, when colonialism went out of style it was replaced by WHAT?
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Neocolonialism
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Just by doing business normally WHAT help to maintain internal stratification?
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Multinational corporations
