Social Stratification

Malthus

Malthus

________ viewed inequality favorably, but only as a means for controlling population growth.

Habitus

________ is really the physical embodiment of cultural capital- such that we have the goals, tastes, ideas, and thoughts of people who are in our same social class.

Hegel

________ viewed history in terms of a master- slave dialectic, a relationship of mutual dependency.

student government

Eg: hegemony is the ________ leadership in a school.

Inequality

________ is acceptable so long as everyone has the same opportunities for advancement and is judged by the same standards.

Payday loan industry

________ charges 400 % interest.

Vilfredo Pareto

________ argued that 20 % of the population was more talented, smarter, and more able to assume positions of power.

Rousseau

________ argued that private property creates social inequality, and that this inequality ultimately leads to social conflict.

Classes

________ are groups of people who share similar characteristics and social locations.

Weber

________ believed that a class of people was defined by the similar life chances they held.

Military Order

________: The largest and most expensive feature of government and one that has a monopoly on violence and death.

Stratification

________ refers to the hierarchical organization of a society into groups with differing levels of power, social prestige, or status and economic resources.

Life chances

________ can be thought of as the chances that you will be able to reach your goals in society.

Political Order

________: With only a few parties who are remarkably similar on almost every issue, controls the legal justice system allowing the powerful to define their behaviors as legal and others behaviors as illegal.