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.
