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Concepts of Social Stratification

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  • © 2001

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  1. Andreas Hess

    1. University of Wales, Bangor, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Why Study the Semantics of Social Stratification?

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 1-9

  3. Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 10-24

  4. Max Weber: Political Economy as Sociology

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 25-35

  5. Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies: Social Differentiation and Functionalist Sociology

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 36-49

  6. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Political Sociology

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 50-57

  7. In Dispraise of Economics: Thorstein Veblen

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 58-69

  8. The City and Human Ecology: the Urban Sociology of the Chicago School (Robert Park and William Burgess)

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 70-78

  9. The Origins of Cultural and Community Studies: Robert and Helen Lynd’s Anatomy of Middletown

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 79-91

  10. The Political Sociology of C. Wright Mills: an Anatomy of the American Power Structure

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 92-103

  11. Dissecting the ‘Fine Distinctions’ in America’s System of Social Stratification: Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 104-111

  12. Maintaining the Equilibrium of Freedom and Order: Talcott Parsons’ Resuscitation of Functionalism

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 112-123

  13. From ‘Black Nation’ and ‘Black Bourgeosie’ to ‘Urban Underclass’ — the Sociology of African American Communities: W. E. B. Du Bois, Franklin E. Frazier and William J. Wilson

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 124-139

  14. Back to the Future: Mike Davis and Erik Olin Wright’s Marxist Interpretations of Class Struggle in the US

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 140-160

  15. Tocqueville Revisited: American Exceptionalism in the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 161-167

  16. Epilogue: The Semantics of Social Stratification

    • Andreas Hess
    Pages 168-174

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 175-190
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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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  • University of Wales, Bangor, UK

    Andreas Hess

About the author

ANDREAS HESS is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor.

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