stratification
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Marx doesn’t believe the influence of status can ever be transcended, but he suggests we can at least narrow its stratifications by reducing “the ills of social hierarchy” and promoting “radical creativity.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2022
Back at the start, we speculated that maybe the pandemic would open eyes and hearts to the deep stratifications of society.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2021
While these legalized social stratifications buckled under the weight of Lincoln’s proclamation, we never emerged from the cultural mind-set they inscribed.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2020
“We’re baking those social stratifications in, and we’re making the biases even less apparent and even less easy for people to recognize.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 6, 2017
He classified the lines he studied into stratifications of importance, always eliminating the not-quite-perfect continuation and seeking what he called the “true move,” that which could not be refuted.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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