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SOCIAL stratification exists in most societies, yet upon the English it exerts a powerful, subtle and complex influence, to a much greater extent than in younger culture-patterns. Strangely, however, the subject has attracted very little attention from psychologists. Psychologists ought to regard social stratification as a problem to be studied as objectively as a geologist studies the layers in a cliff face. The practical issues are of importance for the welfare of the future*.
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English Social Stratification. Nature 150, 465 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150465a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150465a0