Gumperz chose Khalapur as a place to study speech patterns due to its being a small, highly stratified community.

At the same time, Roman society was a highly stratified class system whose divisions were bubbling below the surface.

We cannot survive in the highly stratified society of Japan otherwise.

Much the same was true of 19th-century Australia, at the time a highly stratified colony whose masses were descended from prisoners.

Sumba has a highly stratified society based on castes.

Several other commentators have stated that the books present a highly stratified society including many social stereotypes.

Their relationship not only defied Victorian sexual mores but also the highly stratified British class system.

Thus, printing in early Korea served only the small, noble groups of the highly stratified society.

The walkout itself involved a small sliver of the fish market's highly stratified work force - the loaders.

This is a highly stratified world, in which the high end houses are draped in all the trappings of respectability.

Medieval society was highly stratified.

Drug defenders in South Florida are highly stratified.

His background may also boost the morale of the urban and rural Peruvian masses in a country that is highly stratified along class and racial lines.

Nevertheless, Terling society was highly stratified; by the later seventeenth century the 'better sort' were becoming increasingly set apart from the labouring poor.

During this period, the Mesoamerican societies were highly stratified.

Before the advent of mavericks such as Stigwood and Meek, the British pop music industry was highly stratified.

They were highly stratified by wealth.

Burmese society was highly stratified during Konbaung rule.

Scholars have characterised the Indian community in colonial times as being diverse and highly stratified along class lines.

Adyghe society prior to the Russian invasion was highly stratified.