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Why would agrarian societies have social stratification that emphasizes caste? Why would industrial societies have social stratification that mixes caste with meritocracy?

State one way in which caste and class systems differ.

What is meritocracy? What part does it play in class systems?

What is status consistency? Provide a description of a person with high status consistency and an example of someone with low status consistency.

Define structural social mobility. How does it differ from individual social mobility?

State the Davis-Moore thesis. According to this theory, why is social inequality useful for society?

According to Karl Marx, what are the two major classes in industrial-capitalist societies? How did Marx describe the relationship between the two classes?

What did Max Weber mean by describing inequality in terms of a socioeconomic status ranking?

Explain how social stratification shapes patterns of social interaction.

What is the Kuznets curve? What does it tell us about how social stratification has varied over the course of human history as well as in the world today?