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| a process in which people are set apart for differential treatment by virtue or their status, roles, and other social characteristics |
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| a condition in which people have unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige |
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| a form of inequality in which categories of people are systematically ranked in a hierarchy on the basis of their access to scarce but valued resources |
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| a society with two distinct strata, a category of people who are free and a category of people who are legally the property of others |
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| Ranking is hereditary and permanent, and marriage between members of different categories is prohibited |
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| a social hierarchy centered on the monopoly of power and ownership of land by a group of religious and political elites |
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| the economic factor and achieved statuses (gained by ability and merit) are the principal means of ranking |
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| a person's or family's total economic assets |
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| the ability to realize one's will, even against resistance and the opposition of others |
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| the respect and admiration people attach to various social positions |
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| a ranking that combines income, occupational prestige, level of education, neighborhood to assess people's positions in the stratification system |
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| when people fall below a minimum subsistence level and are unable to function as members of society |
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| a lack of resources relative to others and the overall standards of a society |
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| women and girls constitute a disproportionate share of the poor |
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| a set of norms, beliefs, values, and attitudes that trap a small number of the urban poor in a permanent cycle of poverty |
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| opportunities for securing such things as health, education, autonomy, leisure, and a long life |
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| the movement of people from one social position to another in the stratification system |
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| large-scale changes in occupational, educational, and corporate social structures that enable people to move up or down in the stratification system |
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| the distinctive ways in which group members consume good and services and display rank |
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