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| the relative access individuals and groups have to basic material resources, wealth, power, and prestige: varies based on economic factors |
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| three types of systems of social differentiation |
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| egalitarian societies, rank societies, and stratified societies |
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| no idividual or group is barred from access to material resources or has power over others: inheritance means nothing, principles of generalized or balanced reciprocity in the exchange of goods and services, associated with bands or tribes |
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| formal differences among individuals and groups in prestige and symbolic resources: differences may be inherited, based on highly productive horticulture or pastoralism--surplus--redistribution--characteristic mode of exchange, social ranking=chiefdom |
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| formal and permanent social and economic inequalities: wealth, prestige, and office are frequently inherited, some groups denied access to basic resources, differences ascribed(based on birth) or achieved(based on individual accomplishment), market systems, based on agriculture and industrialism, poli orgo called state |
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| the ability to control resources in one's own interest: make others do things you wouldn't want to |
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| the ability to cause others to act based on one's characteristics such as honor, status, knowledge, ability, respect, and/or the holding of formal public office, important source of power, |
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| INFO: in egalitarian and rank societies, use of power, authority, and decision making, coordination and regulation of human behavior are not separate parts of the social system but rather embedded in other social institutions such as kinship, economics, and religion; individuals with 'supernatural power' have important roles |
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