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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Stratification | is a systmatic inequality between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social process |
| the estate system | is a politically based system of statification characterized by limited social mobility that is best exemplified in the social organization of fuedal europe and pre-civil war american south |
| the caste system | is a system of strafication based on hereditary notions of religious and theological purity and ngenerally offers no prospects for social mobility. the varna system in india is the most common example today of a cste system |
| the class system | is an economically based system of strafication characterized by simewhat loose soical mobility and categories based on roles in the production process rather than individual characteristics |
| ontological equality | is the notion that everyone is created eqal in the eyes of God |
| equality of opportunity | is the idea that everyone should have an equal starting point from which to pursue his or her goals. belief in this standard of equality has led to policies, such as affrimative action, which try to compensate social actors for differencers in their conditions or starting points |
| Equality of outcome | is the notion that everyone in a society should end up with the same rewards regardless of his or her starting point, apportunities, or contributions. this standard of equality is most closely associated with communist ideology, and critics argue that without greater incentives to work hard and be productive people will slack off and social progress will be stymied |
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