Capitalism and friends

My group has decided that after defining our own term, we would somehow explain why our keyword is connected to or related to the other four terms. Since we selected the keywords based on the theme of economy and capitalism, we felt that there had to be a degree of relativism between capitalism, economy, marginal, welfare and class. In my opinion there is a clear relationship between these five words.
As mentioned in my previous page, capitalism is often thought of as an economic system. When asked about economy, the term capitalism and money are the first few thoughts that would arise in my mind, I can safely assume that it is the same for the majority of Americans. Thus, there is a direct relationship between these two keywords in that one makes up the other. I had difficulty trying to link marginal and capitalism. To be marginal means to be on the boundary or borderlines in reference to the center. The text explains the center to be the power and the further away from the center the lesser power. In terms of capitalism, those who have control or have capitals and resources are concentrated in the center, those who have little or no capitals are marginalized; they are barely surviving on the boundary. Those who are marginalized are those who occupy the lower class. Class is a stratification, or ranking system base on socioeconomic status. The more capital one has, the higher their class is and the closer to the center they will be which translates into more power and control. Lastly, welfare can be related in terms of the stigmatization of poverty and low class which accompanies welfare, as mentioned by one of my group members. Although welfare refers to the wellbeing of the population, however, today welfare is highly stigmatized. When people think of welfare, they tend to think of poor and lazy people.
Perhaps this group project and the course text have taught me that we can not simply define a word as it is “just” this or “just” that. A term as commonly used as capitalism captures so many endless meanings. It is not clear to me what I am supposed to take from this project, to understand the terms? Is it to enhance our vocabulary and to better understand a term which we think we understood already? Or is it to learn how to be random and creative in the ways we think about everyday things. If these were the goals of the task, then I believe I have achieved it.