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13 Cards in this Set
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Age grade
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An organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime.
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Age sets
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Groups of persons simultaneously initiated into age grades at the same time and who move through the series of categories together.
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Caste
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A special form of social class in which membership is determined by birth and remains fixed for life.
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Closed-class societies
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Stratified societies that severely restrict social mobility.
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Common-interest associations
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Associations not based on age, kinship, marriage, or territory but result from an act of joining.
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Cultural pluralism
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Social and political interaction of people with different ways of living and thinking within the same society.
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Egalitarian societies
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Social systems that have as many valued positions as persons capable of filling them.
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Social mobility
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The ability to change one's class position.
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Open-class societies
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Stratified societies that permit a great deal of social mobility.
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Social class
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A category of individuals who enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to the system of evaluation.
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Stratified society
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The division of society into two or more categories of people who do not share equally in the basic resources that support life, influence, and prestige.
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Symbolic indicators
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In a stratified society, activities and possessions indicative of social class.
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Verbal evaluation
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The way people in a stratified society evaluate others in their society.
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