Chapter 9 Flashcards
(33 cards)
Elits
top leaders of a society whose decisions influence the whole of its people, consisting of politicians, military leaders and leaders in big corporations
slavery
ownership of people by others
caste
status is determined by birth and life long
estate
consisting three groups, nobility, clergyman and commoners
Class
primarily based on possession of money. able to move the social ladder
bourgeoisie
capitalist who own means of production
Proletarian
working class who sell their labors to capitalists
Colonialism
process by which one nation takes over another nation usually for the purpose of exploiting its labor and natural resources
World System Theory
world is divided by four interconnected nations, first is core nations that ae the most advanced industrialized, second is periphery nations that trade with the core, third is periphery fringe nations that sell crops to the first and the fourth is the external areas that left behind development have few connection with the first
Culture of poverty
having a culture that the way of life that perpetuates poverty from generation to generation
Neocolonialism
econ and political dominance of the least industrialized countries by the most industrialized nations
Multinational Corporations
companies that operate across national boundaries, helping maintain the global dominance of the most industrialized nations
Ideology
system of beliefs
Weber’s 3 P’s
Property, power and prestige
Immanuel Wallerstein
World system, semi- periphery/trade, periphery/crops, external/left behind
Globalization
process in which extensive movements of capital and ideas among the world nations
Hierarchy
a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
Social Mobility
the ability to move up and down the social ladder
Open Class
ranked by your achieved status
Closed Class
ranked by your ascribed status
endogamous social relations
marriage within your own class
Exogamous social relations
marriage outside of our own class or group
Means of Production
Tools, factories, land and capital investment
Components of Social Class
Power, prestige and property