Concepts of Social Stratification
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Concepts of Social Stratification

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Concepts of Social Stratification

About this book

This book looks at how sociological concepts that were first 'invented' and applied to describe social inequality in Europe were also used to understand and explain inequality in the United States. However, under very different circumstances and conditions the concepts needed to be adjusted - either through changing their precise meaning or by using related concepts. In Concepts of Social Stratification the author tries to analyse this change by looking at how some of the most prominent American sociologists have tried to conceptualise their own society while at the same time addressing the complex relationship between an assumed political equality and de facto social inequality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1 Introduction: Why Study the Semantics of Social Stratification?
  4. 2 Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
  5. 3 Max Weber: Political Economy as Sociology
  6. 4 Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies: Social Differentiation and Functionalist Sociology
  7. 5 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Political Sociology
  8. 6 In Dispraise of Economics: Thorstein Veblen
  9. 7 The City and Human Ecology: the Urban Sociology of the Chicago School (Robert Park and William Burgess)
  10. 8 The Origins of Cultural and Community Studies: Robert and Helen Lynd’s Anatomy of Middletown
  11. 9 The Political Sociology of C. Wright Mills: an Anatomy of the American Power Structure
  12. 10 Dissecting the ‘Fine Distinctions’ in America’s System of Social Stratification: Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
  13. 11 Maintaining the Equilibrium of Freedom and Order: Talcott Parsons’ Resuscitation of Functionalism
  14. 12 From ‘Black Nation’ and ‘Black Bourgeoisie’ to ‘Urban Underclass’ – the Sociology of African American Communities: W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin E. Frazier and William J. Wilson
  15. 13 Back to the Future: Mike Davis and Erik Olin Wright’s Marxist Interpretations of Class Struggle in the US
  16. 14 Tocqueville Revisited: American Exceptionalism in the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset
  17. 15 Epilogue: The Semantics of Social Stratification
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index