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| An organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime. |
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| A formally established group of people born during a certain time span who move through the series of age-grade categories together. |
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| Common-interest Association |
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| An 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. |
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| 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. |
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| A society in which everyone has about equal rank, access to, and power over the basic resources that support survival, influence, and prestige. |
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| A category of individuals in a stratified society who enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to the system of evaluation. |
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| A closed social class in a stratified society in which membership is determined by birth and fixed for life. |
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