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All right, here we are asked to clarify what kind of open social stratification system do we have.
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So let's break this down, first of all, open social stratification system.
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Social stratification system.
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Stratification.
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Okay, so let's talk about a stratification.
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So strata just means layers.
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So stratification just means that there's levels.
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All right so that that just means that there's levels to your society basically every society is has levels and even if that comes down to two levels like you can look at hg wells where he has the time machine goes back or goes forward in time and sees that there's only two levels there's the people who live upon the surface and then which are basically super rich civilized quote unquote humans and then underground you have the basically the monsters all right so there's only two levels there that's to strata so that's all stratification means now social just means that it's going to be um well really we should say open social open social means so open social means that there is some means some means by which one can move between levels some means by which one can move between the strata can move between the levels now what that means is there is well there's a term that describes that and that is social mobility social mobility now there are different types of the open social stratifications right you have class you have a meritocracy you have achievement based which is basically which is basically it so this there's the contrast is what they closed all right so the contrast is a closed which means that you're stuck at birth you're stuck at birth and this is many like feudal or aristocracy or noble social strata, which means that, you know, if you're born the prince, you'll always be the prince.
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If you're born a commoner, you'll always be a commoner.
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If you're born to the blacksmith, then you're, you know, you're always going to be in that, what would maybe be called middle class.
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If you're born to a duke, then you'll always be in the nobility class, right? it's closed.
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They're stuck there.
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It's determined at birth.
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Now, the difference is that that social mobility, there's some means by which one can move between levels.
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That social mobility, that is achievement -based...