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

a. refer to all types of inequality, including that based on gender, age, and ethnicity.
b. are points along a continuum; most societies fit somewhere between the specific points.
c. are caste, class, and egalitarian.
d. are atemporal.
?


ANSWER:
b

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