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9.1 What Is Social Stratification?

The New Press provides an interactive helpful in exploring social stratification. Within the relatively straightforward graphic activity, you can select two demographic categories and illustrate the quantity those populations by income level.

9.2 Social Stratification and Mobility in the United States

The Pew Research Center Created an income calculator to determine people's socioeconomic classification according to state and income.

9.3 Global Stratification and Inequality

Our World in Data's Global Economic Inequality page a wide range of data sources, narratives, and charts. While the sources should be verified before citing them in papers, the presentation offers a multifaceted picture of global inequality : .

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