stratum

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Related topics: Geology, Sociology

stra·tum /ˈstrɑːtəm $ ˈstreɪ-/ noun (plural strata /-tə/) [countableC]

1. HEGa layer of rock or earth 岩层；地层

2 SSa social class in a society 社会阶层

people of different social strata

各个社会阶层的人

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stratum• The participant culture is an additional stratum that may be added to and combined with the subject and parochial cultures.• If the differences between strata are maximised and the variations within them minimised, the benefits from stratification can be considerable.• However, this increasingly self-contained stratum is broader than the bureaucracy.• The class approach Does the same fundamental value separate virtually all people in a society into a few distinct strata?• The nobility and the serfs emerged, then, as two of the distinct strata in feudal society.• By 1884 it was announced that Murchison's interpretation of a simple succession of strata was untenable.• We can now move on to analyse the middle class and the varied strata within it in terms of this dynamic of structuration.

Origin stratum

(1500-1600) Modern Latin Latin, “something spread, bed”, from sternere “to spread out”

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