Life Chances
The reputation, influence, and deference bestowed on certain people because of their membership in certain groups.
An individual's opportunities to improve quality of life and achieve life goals.
The movement of one's class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies.
The phenomenon whereby social and class relations of prestige or lack of prestige are passed from one generation to the next.
Social Mobility
Bourdieu's term to describe the self-perceptions and beliefs that develop as part of one's social identity and shape one's conceptions of the world and where one fits in it.
Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering foods to eat.
Social reproduction
A cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available resources to satisfy their needs and to survive.
Habitus
A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals.
Economy
The cultivation of plants for subsistence through non-intensive use of land and labor.
Food Foragers
An intensive farming strategy for food production involving permanently cultivated land.
Pastoralism
The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.
Horticulture
A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.
Agriculture
A critique of modernization theory that argued that, despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations of the modern world economic system had not changed.
Reciprocity
The term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.
Redistribution
Industrialized former colonial states that dominate the world economic system.
Dependency Theory
The least developed and least powerful nations; often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets.
Underdevelopment
The dominant model of industrial production for much of the twentieth century, based on a social compact between labor, capital, and government.
Core Countries
The increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies.
Periphery countries
An economic and political worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government.
Fordism
The forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country.
Flexible Accumulation
migration The movement of people within their own national borders.
Neoliberalism
The movement of people within their own national borders.
A person who moves in search of a low-skill and low-wage job, often filling an economic niche that native-born workers will not fill.
Pushes and Pulls
A small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory.
Internal migration
Labor migrant
Originally viewed as a culturally distinct, multiband population that imagined itself as one people descended from a common ancestor; currently used to describe an indigenous group with its own set of loyalties and leaders living to some extent outside the control of a centralized authoritative state.
An autonomous political unit composed of a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief.
Band
An autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory.
Hegemony
The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force.
The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, symbols, mental maps of reality, institutions, and structures of power.
A set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world ought to be, often revealed insights into a supernatural power and lived out in community.
An act or series of acts regularly repeated over years or generations that embody the beliefs of a group of people and create a sense of continuity and belonging.
Agency
Anything that is considered holy.
Rite of Passage
A category of ritual that enacts a change of status from one life stage to another, either for an individual or a group.
A part-time religious practitioner with special abilities to connect individuals with supernatural powers or beings.
The use of spells, incantations, words, and actions in an attempt to compel supernatural forces to act in certain ways, whether for good or evil.
A ritual performance that achieves efficacy by imitating the desired magical result.
Shaman
Ritual words or performances that achieve efficacy as certain materials that come into contact with one person carry a magical connection that allows power to be transferred from one person to another.
Magic
The absence of disease and infirmity, as well as the presence of physical, mental, and social well-being.
Imitative Magic
A discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional.
Contagious magic
Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.
Health
A practice, often associated with Western medicine, that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing disease and promoting healing.
Disease
Ethnomedicine
Biomedicine
Polygyny
Marriage between one man and two or more women.
Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production.
Post WWII economic theories that predicted that with the end of colonialism, less-developed countries would follow the same trajectory towards modernization as the industrialized countries.
The individual patient's experience of sickness.
Bourgeoisie
Modernization Theories
Illness