Social Stratification

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Social stratification
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The division of people into layer according to their relative power, property, and prestige
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Gender
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An ascribed characteristic that contributes to social standing in all stratification system
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Means of production
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Was the primary factor which distinguishes the different classes in industrial capitalism (Karl Marx)
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Marx argued that workers experience_________ when they mistakenly identify with capitalists
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False consciousness
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According to Max Weber, social class is made up of three components
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Property, power, and prestige
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According to Melvin Tumin, the best predictor of college entrance (admission) is :
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The family income
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According to Gaetano Mosca, every society is stratified by
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Power
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The two most striking characteristics of the British class system are
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Language and education
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The _______ are assembly for export factories along the U.S- Mexican border
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Maquiladoras
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The practice of industrialized nations controlling the Least Industrialized Nations through debt is known as
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Neocolonialism
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Companies that operate across many national boundaries and help the Most Industrialized Nations maintain global dominance are known as
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Multinational Corporations
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_______ is a large category of people who share many similar levels of wealth, power and prestige
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Social Class
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The primary characteristic of social class is
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Wealth. (other are: power, prestige, and occupation.)
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Regarding the \"Distribution of Wealth in America, \" it can be concluded that
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A very small percentage of americans control the majority of the assets
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C. Wright Mills coined the term _____ the power elite to refer to the collection of people who make the major decisions the U.S society.
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Power elite
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The upward or downward movement in social class by family members from one generation to the next is known as
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Intergenerational mobility
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The three major predictors of whether or not Americans are poor are
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Race or ethnicity; level of education; and sex of the head of the household
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The trend in the U.S poverty whereby poor families have been increasingly headed by women is called the
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Feminization of poverty
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One out of every six white children in the U.S lives in poverty. About 15 million American children live in poverty. A major cause for the increase in poverty among children is the increase in number of births outside the marriage.
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Numerically, there are more white children in poverty; proportionally, there are more african American children in poverty
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A _______ may result in poverty
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Change in the social structure
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Recently, the U.S welfare system was restructured.
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The number of people on welfare has decreased significantly
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Examples of ______: murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis; the Sand Creek massacre of Native Americans by the U.S Army; \"Killing Fields\" in Cambodia
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Ethnic cleansing
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_____ reflects biological heritage; ethnicity reflects cultural heritage.
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Race
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Racial profiling or closer monitoring of minority group members resulting in unequal treatment is an example of:
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Discrimination
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Prejudice describes attitudes while discrimination describes
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Actions
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Unequal treatment by a formal organization based on minority group membership:
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Institutional discrimination
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Daily living conditions for Jews under Czarist Russia (late 1800s) was made so intolerable that millions of Jews left Russia and moved to other countries
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Indirect population transfer
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A form of internal colonialism practiced in South Africa by which the dominant white Africaaners exploited the black minority groups:
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Apartheid
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Nation in which separate ethnic groups keep their own language and cultural heritage, but are peacefully united economically and politically.
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Multiculturalism
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The greatest number of Latinos in the U.S trace their heritage to
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Mexico
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