Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical and Comparative Perspective

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This text provides coverage of research and theory relating to social stratification in the US and selected international societies. It adopts general conflict principles as its theoretical orientation, and focuses on the development and maintenance of the structure of inequality. This edition has been updated to include data from the 1990 census and features examples, figures and tables. A new chapter on race, ethnicity and gender focuses on important issues of inequality. There are also new chapters on Germany and on Japan.

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  Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Comparative, and...

  • 2000
  • 604 pages
  • Paperback
  • Mcgraw-hill
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  Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in the United States

  • 1983
  • 494 pages
  • Paperback
  • Mcgraw-hill

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