Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical and Comparative PerspectivePerspectives and concepts in the study of social stratification; dimensions of inequality in the United States; social stratification in human societies - the history of inequality; early statements; modern theories of social stratification; social stratification in the United States; the upper class; the corporate class; middle and working classes; the poor; social mobility - class ascription and achievement; the process of legitimation; social stratification in Japan; social stratification in communist societies - the Soviet Union; the world stratification system. |
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Stratification | 3 |
DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS | 10 |
Dimensions of Inequality in the United States | 27 |
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American assumptions authority banks bureaucratic capitalist chapter Citibank class conflict class position class system communist conflict theories consider core corporate class Davis and Moore differences distribution Domhoff dominance Durkheim economic elites equality examined example extensive feudal functional higher human important income inequality increase industrial nations industrial societies influence institutions interests interlocks Japan labor legitimation Lenski less level of inequality lower classes major corporations Marx Marx's Marxian mass media means of production middle class occupational status occupational structure organizations overall ownership paradigm percent periphery perspective political poor population poverty poverty line ranking rewards social mobility Social Register social stratification Soviet Union status attainment stratification system stress Table theorists theory tion U.S. Bureau U.S. Senate United upper class upper nonmanual wealth Weber white-collar women workers working-class