Institution type sorts social institutions by the specific organizational form they take. Wikipedia notes anthropologists classify family organizations as "matrifocal... patrifocal... conjugal... avuncular... or extended," several distinct forms doing a similar underlying job. This dimension groups institutions that share the same organizational type.
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Established Era Primary Discipline Institution Type
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1. Wikipedia: Social stratification
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The concept of social stratification (as well as the concept of social mobility) was introduced by a Russian-American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin in his book "Social Mobility" published in 1927.
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