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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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