HSB Unit #3 Key Terms

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Capitalism
Economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
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Feminist Theory
Argues that women should be able to experience the same rights as men.
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Glass Ceiling
An invisible barrier put in place to prevent minorities from being successful
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Desensitize
Familiarity with a stimulus to the extent that an individual's reaction to it is reduced
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Normalization
The process of being exposed to something to the extent that it becomes the new norm.
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Occupy Movement
A protest against income inequality
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Attawapiskat
a first nations community who experienced a state of emergency in 2011 when living conditions were extremely poor
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Achieved vs. Ascribed status
The former refers to the ability of an individual to achieve a social position due to their own effort, while the latter refers to being given the social position not due to any skills of the individual
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Closed/Open system
The former refers to strict boundaries in social positions, while the latter refers to flexible boundaries
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Intragenerational/intergenerational Mobility
The former refers to the social mobility of an individual within their own lifetime, while the latter refers to social mobility experienced by the family across generations
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Caste System/Apartheid
The former refers to a system of social inequality wherein a persons permanent social status is determined at birth based on their parents ascribed characteristics. The latter refers to a system of racial segregation involving political, legal and economic discrimination against coloured people
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Horizontal/Vertical Mobility
The former refers to the ability of an individual to experience a gain or loss in position or income without affecting their place in the class structure, while the latter refers to the position being affected
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Social Mobility
Refers to a change in an individual's social/economic status
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Social Stratification
A system of ranking individuals in a hierarchical manner based on class and status
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Lens
The filtering of ideas transmitted in media to sell a specific idea
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Marxism/Socialism
The political and economic theory of Karl Marx
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Columbine
A mass school shooting in 1999