Social Stratification and Inequality

Perspectives and concepts in the study of social stratification; dimensions of inequality in the United States; social stratification in human societies - the history of inequality; early statements; modern theories of social stratification; social stratification in the United States; the upper class; the corporate class; middle and working classes; the poor; social mobility - class ascription and achievement; the process of legitimation; social stratification in Japan; social stratification in communist societies - the Soviet Union; the world stratification system.