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Reordering the
ranks. Shifting the position of social groups and individuals in the hierarchical pattern
of social stratification in a society, but
retaining the hierarchical pattern. Restratification is essentially concerned with status relationships, not with
class relationships; with a new inequality, not
equality. Efforts at inegalitarian reform or
restratification are usually manifest in what may be called status social movements. Some
women's liberation movements and black capitalist
civil rights organizations, for example, seem more interested in the
integration of exploitation than in its destruction. The issue becomes not the existence
of a General Motors or a General Motors' Board of Directors, but the representation of, in
this case, women and blacks on that board. When the proportion is correct, the
restratification movement sees its reform effort in society completed. See social stratification;
destratification.
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