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Elaborate the concepts of ‘status-consistency’ and ‘status-inconsistency’. State the factors responsible for ‘status-inconsistency’ in modern societies.

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  • Stratification and Mobility

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Max Weber showed that class, status and party are distinct dimensions of stratification that need not coincide. Later American sociologists turned this into a multidimensional view of social rank. A person's position is then a profile across income, occupation, education, ethnicity and power, not a single point on a ladder.

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