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Introduction to Sociology: Diversity And Health Emphasis SLU > Chapter 7 > Flashcards

Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Capital

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What we use to get what we want

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Economic Capital

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Can become money or is money

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Income

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Where we get money/ how we are paid

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Wealth

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Money you have now (-) debts

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Measures of Central Tendency

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Median, Mean, Mode

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Median

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The middle value

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Mean

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Sum of values divided by # of values

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Mide

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Most often occurring number

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Egalitarian

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Belief that everyone is equal in value

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Egalitarianism in foraging groups…

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They were more egalitarian than we are now

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Social stratification started

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(Sorting group layers) -> 10,000 years ago (when farming started)

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What farmers did with their food

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Saved their food, sometimes starving occurred/ foraging does not produce food. Extra food farmers stored could be traded (land, animals)

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When farmers had more food and could trade, overtime…

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Social inequality rose (social stratification)

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Caste Systems

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Stayed in same layer (born in)

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Federal systems

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Rich controls poor

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Enslavement Systems

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Rich own slaves

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Social Mobility

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Ability to move up or down groups

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Class Systems

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Sorting into economic group

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Wage

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How much you get paid

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Capitalism

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The right to make more money than others (America, Elon Musk)
Humans buy a lot of things now, and capitalism helps lower prices

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Karl Marx

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(1818-1883) Was in Europe, during industrial evolution

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Karl Marx said

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Capitalism can be bad

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Proletariat

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Working class (blue collar)

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Bourgeoise

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The bosses (white collar)

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Means of production

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Things we use to create wealth

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Labor

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The work people do/ perform

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Alienation

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No connection between result of labor

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Crisis of Capitalism

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Event where capitalism does not recover

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Class Consiousness

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Social classes share interests

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Socialism

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System working together to create wealth/ money
Government distributes evenly
(Last Lectured term for Exam 2)

Introduction to Sociology: Diversity And Health Emphasis SLU (3 decks)

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