Chapter 9 - Social Inequality

• The virus that causes AIDS

  HIV
• A closed system of social stratification in which a person's social position is defined by law, and membership is established mainly by inheritance

  Estate system
• A category of people who share similar opportunities and similar economic and vocational positions, lifestyles, attitudes, and behaviors


  Social class
• The number of people of nonworking age in a society for every 100 people of working age

  Dependency ratio
• The study of make-up of human populations


  Demography
• The number of annual live births per 1,000 people in a given population

  Crude birthrate
• The most rigid form of social stratification based on ascribed characteristics

  Caste system
• One of the most prevalent child killers in developing nations

  Acute respiratory illness
• The degree of difference in standard of living among the countries of the world

  Global stratification
• Social hierarchy with greater mobility and based largely on occupation and achieved status

  Class system
• A population's sum-total of births

  Fertility