1. What are some contrasting significances between old age in literate and nonliterate societies.
2. Common-interest associations often have been referred to in the anthropological literature as voluntary associations, but why and how is this term misleading.
3. What are some contrasts with regard to the concepts of class and caste.
4. What are some distinguishing differences between caste and class type systems of stratification, with regard to India and the U.S.? What are some ways in which the social structure of the U.S. also resemble a caste system?
5. What are some reasons as to why some form of social inequality inevitable?
6. What are some similarities between Mundurucu beliefs and those of traditional European culture?