Chapter 7 Flashcards
The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige; applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society or other group.
Social stratification
A form of social stratification in which some people own other people.
Slavery
A contractual system in which someone sells his or her body for a specified period of time in an arrangement very close to slavery, except that it is entered into voluntarily.
Bonded labor
A form of social stratification in which people’s statuses are lifelong conditions determined by birth.
Caste system
Beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements.
Ideology
The practice of marrying within one’s own group.
Endogamy
The government approved and enforced separation of racial thin ice groups as was practiced in South Africa.
Apartheid
The stratification system of medieval Europe, consisting of three groups or estates; the nobility, clergy and commoners.
Estate stratification system
A form of social stratification based primarily on income, education, and prestige of occupation.
Class system
Movement up or down the social class ladder
Social mobility
The tools, factories, land and investment capital used to produce wealth.
Means of production
Marx’s term for capitalists, those who own the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Marx’s term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production.
Proletariat
Marx’s term for awareness of a common identity based on one’s position in the means of production.
Class consciousness.
Marx’s term to refer to workers identifying with the interests of capitalists.
False class consciousness.
