Anthropologists use a classification system for the amount of inequality in a society, developed by Morton Fried. In this system

a. the categories refer to all types of inequality, including that based on gender, age and ethnicity.
b. the categories are more points along a continuum; most societies fit somewhere between these specificpoints

c. the categories are caste, class, and egalitarian.
d. All of these are true of Fried's classification scheme.


b

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