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Social stratification
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Ranks catergories of people in a hierarchy
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Social mobility
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Change in one's position in a social hierarchy
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Vertical mobility
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Up or down in social hierarchy
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Social hierarchy
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Where you status is in society
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Horizontal mobility
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Switch jobs on the same level
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Caste system
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Social stratification based on ascription at birth
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Class system
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Social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement
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Meritocracy
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Social stratification based on personal merit
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Feudal Japan
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Shogun: military leaders
Samurai: warriors
Barukumin: outcasts
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Old Soviet Union
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Apparatchiks, intelligentsia, manual workers, rural peasants
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Davis-Moore Thesis
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Social stratification has beneficial consequences for the operation of a society
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White collar
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High prestige work involves mental activity
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Blue collar
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Low prestige job involves manual labor
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