Chapter 11 Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest and Social Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 age grade | an organized category of people based on age. Every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime. |
| age set | a formally established group of people born during a certain time span who move through the series of age grade categories together. |
| common interest association | as association that results from an act of joining based on sharing particular activities, objectives, values, or beliefs sometimes rooted in common ethnic, religious or regional background. |
| stratified society | a society in which people are hierarchically divided and ranked into social strata or layers and do not share equally in the basic resources that support survival, influence, and prestige. |
| egalitarian society | a society in which everyone has about equal rank, access to, and power over the basic resources that support survival, influence and prestige. |
| social class | a category of individuals in a stratified society who enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to the system of evaluation. |
| caste | a closed social class in a stratified society in which membership is determined by birth and fixed for life. |
| social mobility | upward or downward change in one's social class position in a stratified society. |
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