Terminology
Minority, Ethnicity & Race
Wealth, Power, Prestige
People
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blending of minority groups into the dominant society
What is assimilation?
100
This type of conflict involves moving a group of people from one area to another
What is population transfer?
100
This is usually based on income
What is wealth?
100
a group of people with irish/celtic ethnicity that live nomadically around England
Who are the travelers?
100
This was a documentary about rapid upward social mobility
What is Lucky?
200
This is the opposite of relative poverty
What is absolute poverty?
200
This type of conflict deals with killing off an entire race or ethnic group of people
what is Genocide?
200
This can be attached to social positions, in the media or politics for example
What is power?
200
He wrote the communist manifesto
Who is Karl Marx?
200
This film examined the lives of people living with addictions in East Vancouver
What is Through a Blue Lens?
300
marriage outside one’s own social class
What is exogamy?
300
This is the tendency to judge other cultures in comparision to your own norms, values and beliefs
What is ethnocentrism?
300
Marx argued that this comes from having money and capital
What is power?
300
Often refered to as gypsies, these people of eastern European origin are better known by this name
Who are the Roma?
300
A combination of mental illness, addictions, lack of skills can often lead to this social problem
What is homelessness?
400
This refers to mobility within one's social class
What is horizontal mobility?
400
This type of conflict involves denying equal rights and privileges to a certain racial or ethnic group
What is subjagation?
400
This may be voluntarily granted; not claimed
What is prestige?
400
This American author wrote fairy-tale like stories about the American dream and upward mobility
Who is Horatio Alger?
400
this refers to social mobility over generations
What is intergenerational mobility?
500
The 3 dimensions of social stratification
What are wealth, power, prestige
500
Residential schools in Canada have been a failed attempt at this...
What is assimilation?
500
This sociologist argued that power comes from expertise and knowledge
Who is Max Weber?
500
He defined the two major social classes in industrialized society as the Proletariat and the Bourgeosie
Who is Karl Marx?
500
Brahmas, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras, Untouchables are all parts of this social system in India
What is the Caste system?
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