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Power and Privilege

A Theory of Social Stratification

Gerhard E. Lenski

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2013
Pages: 525
Subject: Social Science | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469611105

DESCRIPTION

Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as diverse and contradictory as those of Marx, Spencer, Sumner, Veblen, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Parsons, and Dahrendorf are parts of an evolving and systematic body of theory.

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