| Acknowledgements | | xv | |
| Chronological table of reprinted chapters and articles | | xvii | |
| General introduction: social stratification: from Plato to postmodernism and Beyond | | 1 | |
| PART 1 Classical Accounts of Stratification |
| | 37 | |
| Part IV: guardians and auxiliaries |
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| Hierarchy, consent, and the `Western tradition' |
| | 58 | |
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| A discourse on a subject proposed by the Academy of Dijon: what is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorised by natural law? |
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| The social system of capitalism |
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| Social classes and class conflict |
| | 103 | |
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| The division of labour and social differentiation |
| | 119 | |
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| Classes, status groups and parties |
| | 131 | |
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| Inequality and social structure: a comparison of Marx and Weber |
| | 149 | |
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| History of thought and theory |
| | 169 | |
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| Social stratification in industrial society |
| | 218 | |
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| Acknowledgements | | ix | |
| PART 3 Community Studies and Stratification |
| | 1 | |
| What social class is in America |
| | 3 | |
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| A critical evaluation of Warner's work in community stratification |
| | 29 | |
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| Beliefs about stratification |
| | 45 | |
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| PART 4 Functionalist Accounts |
| | 73 | |
| Some principles of stratification |
| | 75 | |
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| Some principles of stratification: a critical analysis |
| | 87 | |
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| Functional alternatives to inequality |
| | 99 | |
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| The functional theory of stratification: some neglected considerations |
| | 110 | |
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| A revised analytical approach to the theory of social stratification |
| | 126 | |
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| Equality and inequality in modern society, or social stratification revisited |
| | 171 | |
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| | 231 | |
| Class, property, and authority: Dahrendorf's critique of Marx's theory of class |
| | 233 | |
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| Class, status and political conflict |
| | 256 | |
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| Towards a theory of social stratification |
| | 270 | |
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| The `boundary problem' in Marxism and sociology |
| | 312 | |
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| PART 6 Multidimensionalist Accounts |
| | 329 | |
| Status crystallization: a non-vertical dimension of social status |
| | 331 | |
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| The career of status crystallization: a sociological odyssey |
| | 345 | |
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| | 393 | |
| The nature of social class |
| | 395 | |
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| Class boundaries in advanced capitalist societies |
| | 409 | |
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| Varieties of Marxist conceptions of class structure |
| | 456 | |
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| A Marxist critique of Weberian class analyses |
| | 501 | |
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| | 519 | |
| Social interaction distance and stratification |
| | 521 | |
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| PART 9 `Intelligence' and Stratification |
| | 545 | |
| IQ and income inequality in a sample of sibling pairs from advantaged family backgrounds |
| | 547 | |
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| Acknowledgements | | ix | |
| PART 10 Pre-modern Stratification |
| | 1 | |
| Feudalism as a type of society |
| | 3 | |
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| The basic division: freedom and bondage |
| | 11 | |
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| The estate system in general |
| | 23 | |
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| PART 11 Caste and Slavery |
| | 69 | |
| | 71 | |
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| The Indian stratification debate: a discursive exposition of problems and issues in the analysis of class, caste and gender |
| | 86 | |
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| | 108 | |
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| PART 12 `Race', Ethnicity and Stratification |
| | 161 | |
| From `black nation' and `black bourgeosie' to `urban underclass' -- the sociology of African American communities: W. E. B. Du Bois, Franklin E. Frazier and William J. Wilson |
| | 163 | |
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| From racial oppression to economic class subordination |
| | 177 | |
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| The concept of `social division' and theorising social stratification: looking at ethnicity and class |
| | 197 | |
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| Urban outcasts: stigma and division in the black American ghetto and the French urban periphery |
| | 219 | |
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| American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclass |
| | 245 | |
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| PART 13 Gender Stratification |
| | 275 | |
| Women and social stratification: a case of intellectual sexism |
| | 277 | |
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| | 287 | |
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| Dodging the glass ceiling? Networks and the new wave of women entrepreneurs |
| | 311 | |
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| Marriage, women and social stratification: a theoretical critique |
| | 334 | |
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| PART 14 Integrating Dimensions of Stratification |
| | 365 | |
| A crisis in stratification theory? Persons, households/families/lineages, genders, classes and nations |
| | 367 | |
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| Locating difference: class, `race' and gender, and the shaping of social inequalities |
| | 386 | |
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| Toward a new vision: race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection |
| | 409 | |
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| Acknowledgements | | ix | |
| PART 15 Investigating Social Strata |
| | 1 | |
| Positive functions of the undeserving poor: uses of the underclass in America |
| | 3 | |
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| Idle thieving bastards? Scholarly representations of the `underclass' |
| | 19 | |
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| | 34 | |
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| The historical formation of the British middle classes |
| | 45 | |
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| Is there still a ruling class? |
| | 71 | |
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| Elites, inequality and the quality of democracy in ultramodern society |
| | 102 | |
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| PART 16 Mechanisms of Class Reproduction |
| | 117 | |
| Education and the reproduction of class-based inequalities |
| | 119 | |
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| Social class differences in family-school relationships: the importance of cultural capital |
| | 134 | |
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| Persisting barriers: changes in educational opportunities in thirteen countries |
| | 159 | |
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| Marriage partners and their class trajectories |
| | 187 | |
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| Changing highbrow taste: from snob to omnivore |
| | 208 | |
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| Social mobility and social interests |
| | 249 | |
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| Might Britain be a meritocracy? |
| | 291 | |
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| PART 18 Classless Societies? |
| | 311 | |
| The reshaping and dissolution of social class in advanced society |
| | 313 | |
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| Are social classes dying? |
| | 335 | |
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| Towards a classless society? |
| | 350 | |
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| The persistence of classes in post-industrial societies |
| | 371 | |
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| Postindustrial cleavage structures: a comparison of evolving patterns of social stratification in Germany, Sweden, and the United States |
| | 393 | |
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| Social class and stratification in the late modernity |
| | 414 | |
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| Acknowledgements | | vii | |
| PART 19 Stratification in Global Context |
| | 1 | |
| The Third World and international stratification: theoretical considerations and research findings |
| | 3 | |
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| Globalization and the great U-turn: income inequality trends in 16 OECD countries |
| | 22 | |
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| Global and national inequality: are they connected? |
| | 76 | |
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| Manufactured goods: poverty amid the glitz |
| | 90 | |
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| Transgressing the nation-state: the partial citizenship and `imagined (global) community' of migrant Filipina domestic workers |
| | 104 | |
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| Heralding the new, new economy: another giant sucking sound |
| | 129 | |
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| Sociological theories of inequality in their social context: a comparison of Germany, France, Britain and the United States |
| | 172 | |
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| The new world order, incorporated: the rise of business and the decline of the nation-state |
| | 182 | |
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| Social inequalities in state socialist redistributive economies: dilemmas for social policy in contemporary socialist societies of Eastern Europe |
| | 208 | |
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| Structural change and post-socialist stratification: labor market transitions in contemporary Russia |
| | 235 | |
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| PART 20 The Resurgence of Inequality |
| | 279 | |
| Wealth inequality in the United States |
| | 281 | |
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| | 302 | |
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| | 320 | |
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| | 341 | |
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| Social immobility in the land of opportunity |
| | 354 | |
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| | 362 | |
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| | 393 | |
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| A nation still dividing: the British census and social polarisation 1971--2001 |
| | 416 | |
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| Index | | 452 | |
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