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| is a group whose members possess similar amounts of power within a stratified society. |
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| is the ability to force other people to obey one's requests or demands. |
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| people can move up or down the hierarchy, as in modern Westerm democracies. |
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| there is little mobility up or down. |
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| are people who use nonindustrial technologies to cultivate land in state societies and pay rent and/or taxes in the form of cash, crops, or services to elite groups for use of the land. |
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| According to the image of limited good, |
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| everything is perceived as finite: land, wealth, health, love, friendship, honor, respect, status, power, influence, safety, and security. Everything is scarce; successful individuals take more than their fair share from a common pool, thereby succeeding at the expense of other people. |
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| According to Oscar Lewis, |
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| some groups remain poor because they are crippled by certain cultural features that perpetuate poverty and that are passed down from one generation to the next (the culture of poverty). |
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| are closed, endogamous, and stratified descent groups. |
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| or path of duty, is the basis of Hindu morality; it is the idea that each varna has its appropriate rules of behavior. |
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