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  2. Achieved status - Wikipedia

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    Achieved status is a concept developed by the anthropologist Ralph Linton for a social position that a person can acquire on the basis of merit and is earned or chosen through one's own effort. It is the opposite of ascribed status and reflects personal skills, abilities, and efforts.

  3. Status attainment - Wikipedia

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    Peter M. Blau (1918–2002) and Otis Duncan (1921–2004) were the first sociologists to isolate the concept of status attainment. Their initial thesis stated that the lower the level from which a person starts, the greater is the probability that he will be upwardly mobile, simply because many more occupational destinations entail upward mobility for men with low origins than for those with ...

  4. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    Almost all names a human language attributes an object are thus arbitrary: the word "car" is nothing like an actual car. Spoken words are really nothing like the objects they represent. This is further demonstrated by the fact that different languages attribute very different names to the same object.

  5. Behavioral modernity - Wikipedia

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    Behavioral modernity is a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits believed to distinguish current Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans, hominins, and primates. [1] Most scholars agree that modern human behavior can be characterized by abstract thinking , planning depth, symbolic behavior (e.g., art , ornamentation ), music and ...

  6. Social position - Wikipedia

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    Achieved characteristics are things like the education level, occupation, or income. Studies have indicated a significant relevance of these characteristics to an individual's subjective social position. On the other hand, some theories expect that objective characteristics do not have influence on subjective social position.

  7. Tabula rasa - Wikipedia

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    The "initial data-set" is a set of tables which are generally produced mechanically by a parser table generator, usually from a BNF representation of the source language, and represents a "table representation" of that single programming language. AlphaZero achieved superhuman performance in chess and shogi using self-play and tabula rasa ...

  8. Lexical hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    1. Those personality characteristics that are important to a group of people will eventually become a part of that group's language. [5] and that therefore: 2. More important personality characteristics are more likely to be encoded into language as a single word. [6] [7] [8]

  9. Gestalt qualities - Wikipedia

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    This is the gestalt form quality. The integrity of the perception and its order are achieved through the following principles of Gestalt psychology: [5] Closeness. Nearby incentives tend to be seen together. Similarity. Incentives that are similar in size, shape, color or form tend to be seen together. Integrity.