Final Soc- Chapter 7 Flashcards
(12 cards)
the departure of educated or professional people from one country, economic sector, or field for another usually for better pay or living conditions
Brain Drain
a societal organizing principle that ranks people based on factors like wealth, education, and occupation
Class System
the continuous process of moving labour and other resources from lower- to higher-productivity sectors and raising within-sector productivity growth
Economic Transformation
provide a low-wage labor pool that is willing - or rather, unable to be unwilling - to perform dirty work at low cost
Functions of Poverty
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Intersectionality
wages are given as a basket of goods needed for the reproduction needs of the working class
Marx on Income
freedom and equality before the law
Positive Privilege
restriction and protection against the market
Negative privilege
the state of being extremely poor
Poverty
a system that ranks people within a society based on socioeconomic factors, creating a hierarchy with unequal privileges
Social Stratification
an object meant to signify its owners’ high social and economic standing
Status Symbol
A member of the top one percent of a population by wealth, ability, etc.
The One Percent
