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Language Evolution and Social Strata

Science, 2004
In the recent Special Section on the Evolution of Language (27 Feb., pp. 1315-[1335][1]), one of the topics was the divergence in evolutionary rates among different languages. The references to the work of Partha Niyogi and Robert Berwick ([1][2]) in the article “From heofonum to heavens” (News, Y. Bhattacharjee, p.
Temple F. Smith, Scott C. Mohr
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American Social Classes: Statistical Strata or Social Groups

American Journal of Sociology, 1952
Students of stratification currently disagree on the question of whether American social classes are social entities recognized as such by the average citizen or whether they are merely heuristic concept created by the social analyst. Data gathered in research on a southern New England mill town indicate that, while a prestige status system exists in ...
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