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• ability to influence other ppl: power
• refers to the persons position in society: Prestige
• amount of resources that u have:Wealth
• How ppl change their social position over a period of time:Social Mobility
• 2 types of movement:Vertical Mobility and Horizontal Mobility
• how ppl would move up and down: Vertical Mobility
• when a person changes their occupation but their overall social standing remains unchanged:Horizontal Mobility
• 2 TYPES OF SYSTEM:Open class system Closed class system
• characterized by 3 factors: Wealth, power, and prestige:Social Inequality
• characterized by having some ppl deprived of privileges gender / sex of a person can affect their social standing: gender inequality
• groups of ppl in a society, will be classified as minorities:Ethnic Minorities
• inequality/ discrimination in society across the globe: global inequality
• when a society comes in direct contact with other society : Direct Diffusion
• sharing of one’s cultural traits to another culture: diffusion
• Spread of a cultural trait through passing of the trait: Indirect Diffusion
• when a society conquers another society:Forced Diffusion
• Making a better solution out of an old solution:Innovation
• Change of systems / institutions, cultural, economic, etc:Social change
• Citizenry instigates the political change (elections, rebellion):Internal political change
• Usually instigated by other countries imposing embargoes, a leader would control external country:External political change
• Two essential concepts that define the effects of cross culture:Acculturation and Assimilation
• Process wherein a minority adopts a new culture/ way living:Acculturation
• Wherein a minority adopts new culture, native culture can be forgotten:Assimilation
• Most adaptive acculturation strategy, most conducive immigrants:Integration
• used to describe gradual increase in the average temp of the earth’s atmosphere / ocean caused by mainly by greenhouse effect : Global warming
• The process through which heat is trapped near earth’s surface: greenhouse effect
• ice gaps and glaziers start to melt:Rise of Sea Level
• species start to migrate and might lead to extinction :Loss of habitat
• earth experience extreme rainfall, storms, excessively high heat index:Extreme weather
• carbon dioxide dissolves in the sea water, carbonic acid is formed:Ocean acidification
• loosely organized but sustain campaign in support of a social goal:social movement
• The first stage of social movement lifecycle:Emergence
• h20 :water
• CO2 :carbon dioxide
• CH4 - methane
• O3 - Ozone