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sociology 18

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Economy definition   System by which goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed.  
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Industrial society   Organized around the provision of services  
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Capitalism   economy based on competition. means of production are privately owned  
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Socialism   state owns and manages the basic industries in the state. It's like capitalism combined with communism  
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Communism   state is sole owner of its means. State admins declare prices and production goals.  
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Why are jobs moved overseas?   less money for more work  
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What is the highest chance that someone has of obtaining upward mobility?   college education though they are become more common  
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deindustrilization   switching from goods-producing to service-producing  
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job displacement   certain job types are no longer used causing employees to be jobless  
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structural unemployment   created by job displacement. Lost job that is caused by society and not an individual's work performance  
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Automation   Workers being replaced by robots  
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Mismatch theory   Province is unfair for minorities. They don't all have the same advantages.  
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Multinatonial corps   worldly company that gets a lot of money from foreign employment but share a lot of their revenues with other countries participating.  
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xenophobia   fear or hatred toward foreigners, partly caused by foreigners taking jobs overseas and in the US  
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what's a global assembly line?   different countries have a part in manufacturing an item  
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functional theory on work   jobs function and fulfill societal needs.  
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conflict theory and work   work creates tension and people are rewarded unequally in the workplace  
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symbolic interaction theory   Work is done paid and unpaid. Many people have different social interactions in work.  
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underemployment   a Ph.D. driving a taxi for a living  
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Division of labor   One group is responsible to harvesting crops while the other is responsible for hunting game  
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Occupational Distribution   women are more clerical workers while men are more manual or leaders  
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