Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest and Class Key Terms

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Chapter 22

• Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest and
  ClassKey Terms

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• age gradeAn organized category of people based
  on age every individual passes through a series
  of such categories over his or her lifetime.
• age setGroups of persons simultaneously
  initiated into age grades at the same time and
  who move through the series of categories
  together.

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• common-interest associations Associations that
  result from an act of joining based on sharing
  particular activities, objectives, values, or
  beliefs.
• stratified societiesDivision 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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• egalitarian societiesSocial systems that have as
  many valued positions as persons capable of
  filling them.
• social classA category of individuals who enjoy
  equal or nearly equal prestige according to the
  system of evaluation.

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• casteA special form of social class in which
  membership is determined by birth and remains
  fixed for life.
• verbal evaluationThe way people in a stratified
  society evaluate others in their society.

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• symbolic indicatorsIn a stratified society,
  activities and possessions indicative of social
  class.
• mobilityThe ability to change ones class
  position.

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• closed-class societiesStratified societies that
  severely restrict social mobility.
• open-class societiesStratified societies that
  permit a great deal of social mobility.