Quiz 7 and 8 Flashcards
Jati
India’s religious caste system
Dalit: Untouchables
if a person of higher class touches a Dalit they become unclean
early causes of slavery
Debt, crime, war
colonialism
process by which one nation takes over another nation
calculate poverty line
cost of food for a family of 4 for a year times 3
exchange mobility
occurs when a large number of people move up or down the social ladder
Horatio Alger Myth
anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough
Inter-generational mobility
when adult children end up on a different social ladder than their parents
Max Weber: dimensions of sociology
1) poverty
2) power
3) prestige
power elite
top people on the us corporations, military, and politics
wealth
total value of everything someone owns minus debts
anomie
anxiety experienced when an individual cannot cope with social change
class consciousness
common identity based on ones position in the means of production
social class
large group of people who rank close to one another
culture of poverty
assumption that the values of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people
