Chapter 9

Question 1

Elits

Answer 1

top leaders of a society whose decisions influence the whole of its people, consisting of politicians, military leaders and leaders in big corporations

Question 2

slavery

Answer 2

ownership of people by others

Question 3

caste

Answer 3

status is determined by birth and life long

Question 4

estate

Answer 4

consisting three groups, nobility, clergyman and commoners

Question 5

Class

Answer 5

primarily based on possession of money. able to move the social ladder

Question 6

bourgeoisie

Answer 6

capitalist who own means of production

Question 7

Proletarian

Answer 7

working class who sell their labors to capitalists

Question 8

Colonialism

Answer 8

process by which one nation takes over another nation usually for the purpose of exploiting its labor and natural resources

Question 9

World System Theory

Answer 9

world is divided by four interconnected nations, first is core nations that ae the most advanced industrialized, second is periphery nations that trade with the core, third is periphery fringe nations that sell crops to the first and the fourth is the external areas that left behind development have few connection with the first

Question 10

Culture of poverty

Answer 10

having a culture that the way of life that perpetuates poverty from generation to generation

Question 11

Neocolonialism

Answer 11

econ and political dominance of the least industrialized countries by the most industrialized nations

Question 12

Multinational Corporations

Answer 12

companies that operate across national boundaries, helping maintain the global dominance of the most industrialized nations

Question 13

Ideology

Answer 13

system of beliefs

Question 14

Weber’s 3 P’s

Answer 14

Property, power and prestige

Question 15

Immanuel Wallerstein

Answer 15

World system, semi- periphery/trade, periphery/crops, external/left behind

Question 16

Globalization

Answer 16

process in which extensive movements of capital and ideas among the world nations

Question 17

Hierarchy

Answer 17

a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

Question 18

Social Mobility

Answer 18

the ability to move up and down the social ladder

Question 19

Open Class

Answer 19

ranked by your achieved status

Question 20

Closed Class

Answer 20

ranked by your ascribed status

Question 21

endogamous social relations

Answer 21

marriage within your own class

Question 22

Exogamous social relations

Answer 22

marriage outside of our own class or group

Question 23

Means of Production

Answer 23

Tools, factories, land and capital investment

Question 24

Components of Social Class

Answer 24

Power, prestige and property

Question 25

Scare resources

Answer 25

resources that do not have enough, there is very few in the world, making first world countries get more

Question 26

Stratification Universal

Answer 26

same thing as social stratification, but it happens everywhere in the world

Question 27

Functionalist Perspectives

Answer 27

system developed to motivate, patterns of behave characterize a society exist because functional

1) must fill positions
2) more import, must be more qualified
3) positions based on merit
4) if functional, benefits everyone

Question 28

Conflict Perspectives

Answer 28

results of class conflict and competition for scare resources, ideology to justify positions at top

Question 29

Status quo

Answer 29

groups with in the same class compete

Question 30

Social Stratification

Answer 30

system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative property, presaging and power

Question 31

Ideology versus force

Answer 31

ideology is more effective than force.

Question 32

global stratification

Answer 32

refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals and groups in societies around the world.

Question 33

Dependency Theory

Answer 33

s the notion that resources flow from a “periphery” of poor and underdeveloped states to a “core” of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former.