Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical and Comparative PerspectiveThis text provides coverage of research and theory relating to social stratification in the US and selected international societies. It adopts general conflict principles as its theoretical orientation, and focuses on the development and maintenance of the structure of inequality. This edition has been updated to include data from the 1990 census and features examples, figures and tables. A new chapter on race, ethnicity and gender focuses on important issues of inequality. There are also new chapters on Germany and on Japan. |
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... population growth in industrial societies , es- pecially for the lower classes . In previous societies , as production increased , so did the population . With the population growing at a rate that closely equaled the increase in ...
... population growth in industrial societies , es- pecially for the lower classes . In previous societies , as production increased , so did the population . With the population growing at a rate that closely equaled the increase in ...
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... population was poor for at least five of the seven years ( compared with 12 percent of the population poor in any one year ) . Coe ( 1978 ) found that only 1 percent of the U.S. pop- ulation was poor nine out of the nine years included ...
... population was poor for at least five of the seven years ( compared with 12 percent of the population poor in any one year ) . Coe ( 1978 ) found that only 1 percent of the U.S. pop- ulation was poor nine out of the nine years included ...
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... Population Report . Consumer Income , series P - 60 , no . 164 - RD - 1 , Washington , D.C .: U.S. Government Printing Office . U.S. Bureau of the Census . 1989. Poverty in the United States , 1987. Current Population Re- ports ...
... Population Report . Consumer Income , series P - 60 , no . 164 - RD - 1 , Washington , D.C .: U.S. Government Printing Office . U.S. Bureau of the Census . 1989. Poverty in the United States , 1987. Current Population Re- ports ...
Contents
Stratification | 3 |
DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS | 9 |
THE ORGANIZATION OF CHAPTERS | 16 |
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