An egalitarian society is not

a. a society in which people generally have equal access to critical, life-sustaining resources.
b. a society that contains roughly as many valued positions as there are persons capable of filling them.
c. a society that recognizes status on the basis of gender and age.
d. a society that limits the positions of valued status so that everyone of sufficient talent can actually achieve them.
e. the Great Basin Shoshone people.


d

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