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Social mobility, traditional and modernessay 1964 • Fallers, Lloyd A. & Musoke, S. B. K.
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
The authors in this paper compare social mobility in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Buganda. The former period was characterized by a great deal of social mobility within a system of royal patronage. Persons with talent, regardless of backg...Social stratification in traditional Bugandaessay 1964 • Fallers, Lloyd A. et al.
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study examines the social structure and values of traditional Baganda society. The major social division in Baganda society occurred between the'undistinguished' primary producers, and those connected by kinship, service, or appointment to the k...The modernization of social stratificationessay 1964 • Fallers, Lloyd A. et al.
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study examines the changes in occupational organization, social mobility and status differentiation in twentieth-century Buganda. Buganda's modernization has brought an increase in occupational roles which have become the more salient measure of...