Vocabulary
Across
- 8. The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.
- 11. Property, Power, Prestige
- 12. Bourgeoisie=Own the Factors of production Proletariat=Workers
- 13. aid given by government agencies to those in need
- 15. a condition that exists when people may be able to afford basic necessities but are still unable to maintain an average standard of living
- 16. People in power will use it to keep others "in their placeā
- 17. stratification system in which high-status groups own land and have power based on noble birth
- 18. underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
- 19. an illegal practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt
- 20. the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
- 21. the lowest legal wage that can be paid to most workers
- 23. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- 24. the largely democratic and free-market states of the United States and Western Europe (Cold War to today)
- 25. An individual's or group's position within a hierarchical social structure. Socioeconomic status depends on a combination of variables, including occupation, education, income, wealth, and place of residence.
Down
- 1. workers are overqualified for their jobs or work fewer hours than they would prefer
- 2. Movement within social classes.
- 3. the point at which a household's income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members
- 4. a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity
- 5. economic and political connections that tie the world's countries together
- 6. a social position that a person holds
- 7. the communist and state-planned countries of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China (Cold War)
- 9. the state of being unemployed or not having a job
- 10. the state of being under the control of another person
- 14. Intelligence is environmental and inherited and predicts success more accurately than socioeconomic indicators
- 22. the actual purchasing power of income