ABSTRACT
Social ranking is the ordered arrangement of social units (persons and/or groups)along a scale or scales calibrated in terms of some commonly accepted basis of valuation. Accepted scales of valuation differ from society to society, even among subgroups in the same society. It is important to note that cross-culturally, such scales usually have nothing in common (see Williams 1970: 102-14; Duling 1995, 1997).
