Social class and stratification : classic statements and theoretical debates / edited by Rhonda F. Levine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levine, Rhonda F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes.

Social classes in literature.

Social classes--United States.

United States.

Social structure--United States.

Social structure.

Equality.

United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

Bringing together the classic statements on social stratification, this collection offers the most significant contributions to ongoing debates on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality.

Contents:

Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

On classes / Karl Marx

Class, status, party / Max Weber

What social class is in America / W. Lloyd Warner, Marchia Meeker, and Kenneth Eells

Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore

Some principles of stratification : a critical analysis / Melvin M. Tumin

Marxism and class theory : a bourgeois critique / Frank Parkin

Class analysis / Erik Olin Wright

Women and social stratification : a case of intellectual sexism / Joan Acker

Capitalism, patriarchy, and the subordination of women / Heidi Hartmann

Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism / Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill

Double-consciousness and the veil / W.E.B. Du Bois

Race and class / Oliver Cox

The declining significance of race : from racial oppression to economic class subordination / William Julius Wilson

Racial formation / Michael Omi and Howard Winant

Toward a new vision : race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection / Patricia Hill Collins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742546314

0742546322

OCLC:

63229448

Publisher Number:

9780742546318

9780742546325