Social Class and Stratification

Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates

Contributions by Joan Acker, Maxine Baca-Zinn, Patricia Hill Collins, Oliver Cox, Kingsley Davis, Kenneth Eells, Bonnie Thornton Dill, W. E. B DuBois, Frederick Engels, Heidi Hartmann, Karl Marx, Marchia Meeker, Wibert E. Moore, Michael Omi, Frank Parkin, Melvin M. Tumin, W Lloyd Warner, Max Weber, William Julius Wilson, Howard Winant, Erik Olin Wright Edited by Rhonda Levine

Not available to order

Publication date:

27 April 2006

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461643401

The second edition of this strong collection brings together classical statements on social stratification with current and original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for students in courses on social stratification, inequality, and social theory, this new edition includes a revised and updated editor's introduction and conclusion, along with five new chapters on race and gender from distinguished scholars in the field.

Chapter 1 The Communist Manifesto
Chapter 2 On Classes
Chapter 3 Class, Status, Party
Chapter 4 What Social Class is in America
Chapter 5 Some Principles of Stratification
Chapter 6 Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis
Chapter 7 Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique
Chapter 8 Class Analysis
Chapter 9 Women and Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism
Chapter 10 Capitalism, Patriarchy, and the Subordination of Women
Chapter 11 Theorizing Difference From Multiracial Feminism
Chapter 12 Double-Consciousness and the Veil
Chapter 13 Race and Class
Chapter 14 The Declining Significance of Race: From Racial Oppression to Economic Class Subordination
Chapter 16 Racial Formation
Chapter 17 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis

Even more now than when it first appeared, Social Class and Stratification is a welcome contribution to renewal of interest in class as the decisive force behind social inequalities. Teachers and students alike are once again in Rhonda Levine's debt for her edited collection of and introduction to the most current texts enlivening the debate over class power.