Tribes of the U.S. Northwest Coast and Tahiti represent a social system in which positions of status are limited, and thus where not everyone of talent may achieve high status or prestige, called a(n)

a. ranked society.
b. egalitarian society.
c. nonresidential group.
d. residential group.
e. patrilocal society


a

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