Chapter 11 Vocab - Class & Inequality Flashcards
How is class defined?
A system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society’s resources.
What is an egalitarian society?
A group based on the sharing of resources to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence.
What is reciprocity?
The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.
What is a ranked society?
a group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are.
What is redistribution?
A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.
What is a caste system?
a system of stratification most prominently found in India.
What are dalits?
Members of India’s “lowest” caste, “broken people”. Also called Untouchables.
