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

Publication date:

27 April 2006

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

237x164mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742546318

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

This is scholarship in the best sense of the word: politically engaged, theoretically and empirically informed, and powerfully argued. Complex yet comprehensible. The readings—from Karl Marx to Erik Wright—have been carefully selected and arranged. The strength of this book is the incorporation of non-class based inequalities—specifically race and gender. The inclusion of readings from the 'race, class, and gender' paradigm makes this book the most inclusive and expansive anthology available.