Social position and rank {status} {social status} can be bases for social organizations {status system}. Social status can depend on ancestry, race, sex, and skin color {ascribed status} or income, job, residence, education, religion, and politics {achieved status}. Caste systems have rigid hereditary classes. Aristocracies have defined social classes. Hereditary kingdoms depend on status and titles.
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