Social stratification is one of the oldest and most researchered areas of sociology. It deals with issues that pervade, indeed are at the heart of, the whole sociological enterprise. This book is an effort, first, to state comprehensively and clarify the theories of class structure and stratification put forth by Marx and the post-Marxian scholars, and second, to apply to a particular body of data some of the insights and propositions generated in those theories. ...
