Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates

by Rhonda Levine (Editor), Joan Acker (Contribution by), Maxine Baca-Zinn (Contribution by), Patricia Hill Collins (Contribution by), Oliver Cox (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742546318
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/27/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 9.34(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Rhonda F. Levine is professor of sociology at Colgate University. She is the author of numerous books, including most recently, Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline and Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Angela J. Hattery

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.

Charles Lemert

This volume provides the sociology student with the essentials for a sophisticated theoretical understanding of social stratification in general, and class in particular. A great introduction to the classic and contemporary debates on class analysis for any student of inequality at any academic level.

Dalton Conley

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.


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.

This volume provides the sociology student with the essentials for a sophisticated theoretical understanding of social stratification in general, and class in particular. A great introduction to the classic and contemporary debates on class analysis for any student of inequality at any academic level.

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