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  2. Estates of the realm - Wikipedia

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    Different systems for dividing society members into estates developed and evolved over time. [1] [2] The best known system is the French Ancien Régime (Old Regime), a three-estate system which was made up of a First Estate of clergy, a Second Estate of titled nobles, and a Third Estate of all other subjects (both peasants and bourgeoisie).

  3. Feudalism - Wikipedia

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    Medieval castles are often a traditional symbol of a feudal society. Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from ...

  4. Scottish society in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The primary unit of social organisation in Germanic and Celtic Europe of the early Middle Ages was the kin group and this was probably the case in early Medieval Scotland. [1] The mention of descent through the female line in the ruling families of the Picts in later sources and the recurrence of leaders clearly from outside of Pictish society ...

  5. Neo-feudalism - Wikipedia

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    One of the primary characteristics of the age of techno-capitalist-feudalism, according to Bellemare, is "the degeneration of the old modern class-system into a post-modern micro-caste-system, wherein an insurmountable divide and stratum now exists in-between the "1 percent" and the "99 percent", or more specifically, the state-finance ...

  6. Traditional monarchy - Wikipedia

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    This form of government is based on a Theory of the State (determined by Medieval Political Philosophy or Scholasticism) in which Social Corporations aren't bodies of the state, but it's own organic bodies that shouldn't be absorbed by the state, but instead being protected by the state, as those corporative institutions are considered as natural bodies that allow the community insertion of ...

  7. Trifunctional hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Shudra, a fourth Indian caste, is a peasant or serf. Researchers believe that Indo-European-speakers entered India in the Late Bronze Age, mixed with local Indus Valley civilisation populations and may have established a caste system, with themselves primarily in higher castes. [13] [14]

  8. Systems of social stratification - Wikipedia

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    Robert E. Murowchick wrote the following about the Longshan culture in "China: Ancient Culture, Modern Land": "a kinship system in which people live in lineages; the status of members within the lineages, and of the different lineages themselves are dependent upon their proximity to the main line of descent from founding ancestor to current ...

  9. Caste - Wikipedia

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    Modern India's caste system is based on the superimposition of an old four-fold theoretical classification called varna on the social ethnic grouping called jāti. The Vedic period conceptualised a society as consisting of four types of varnas, or categories: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra, according to the nature of the work of its ...