ANT 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organizational Culture, Jargon, Animal Husbandry
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Social stratification: institutionalized inequality resulting in some groups receiving differential access to power, wealth, and prestige. Wealth: accumulation of financial resources, material possessions, wives and children, and the potential for future earnings. Power: the ability to reach personal, financial, and professional goals regardless of obstacles. Prestige: the social esteem others hold for an individual. Stratified societies: societies in which ranking and inequality among members vary. Egalitarian cultures: groups in which members enjoy equal access to resources and positions. Minority group is a group that is subjected to prejudice and discrimination , while the dominant group holds greater power, prestige, and privilege. Normalized: made to seem natural, normal, necessary, inevitable. Hierarchy: a system of ranking (things or people) according to different criteria. Typically, that are a worldview, or that explain a worldview. It is often (not always) characteristic of a culture: shared ideas about how the world works, and shared values about what is good, bad, appropriate, etc.