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social
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Beliefs which state that systems of social stratification are based on biological inequalities can be seen as rationalizations for those systems.
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Individualism, capitalism, and social stratification increasingly were regarded as acceptable patterns by members of the Mormon hierarchy.
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Social divisions Finally, Tumin questions the view that social stratification functions to integrate the social system.
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Too often, past social stratification forms an obstacle.
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They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites.
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Discussion Our evidence suggests that a new approach to social stratification is required to assess health inequalities in childhood.
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system
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This relationship extends to the strata in a stratification system .
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Another stratification system based just as exclusively on ascribed status attributes is characteristic of what are known as age-set societies.
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Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.
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They will therefore consider how stratification systems help to maintain order and stability in society.
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Life chances A person's position in a stratification system may have important effects on many areas of life.
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They have questioned the view that stratification systems derive ultimately from shared values.
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However, most industrialised societies today have stratification systems that strongly reflect economic relationships.
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Another stratification system based just as exclusively on ascribed status attributes is characteristic of what are known as age-set societies.
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Hence no stratification of the water masses resulting from lowered salinities can be observed.
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Most of the views dealt with in the following sections have been influenced by Marxist or Weberian theories of stratification .
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Sedimentary rocks show stratification and form by settling of erosional debris and chemical precipitates.
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Social stratification still exists and the middle-classes still dominate business and industry - as well as the government.
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They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites.
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This relationship extends to the strata in a stratification system.