Sociology Ch. 10

inability to afford the minimal requirements for sustaining reasonably healthy existence

possession of some status or quality that compels others to obey one's directives or commands

stratification system based on heredity, with little movement allowed across strata

process of expanding economic markets by invading and establishing control over a weaker country and its people

cultural belief that those who succeed in society are those who work hardest and have the best abilities and that those who suffer don't work hard enough or lack the necessary traits or abilities

belief that poor people, resigned to their position insociety, develop a unique value structure to deal with their lack of success

stratification system in which high-status grouups own land and have power based on noble birth

situation in which people in the lower classes come to accept a blief system that harms them; the primary means by which powerful classes in society prevent protest and revolution