Power and Privilege a Theory of Social Stratification

Lenski G

ISBN 10: 0070371652 ISBN 13: 9780070371651

Publisher: McGraw Hill Text, 1966

Synopsis

Lenski, Gerhard E. Power and Privilege. A Theory of Social Stratification. New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Sydney, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. 23.4cm x 15.8cm. XIV, 495 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of german political scientist Klaus von Beyme. Includes for Example: Who gets what and why? Early Pre-Christian views, from Paul to Wintanley/ early modern views from Locke to Mosca/ functionalists and conflict theorists/ the nature of man/ the nature of society/ two laws of distribution/ the variable aspects of distributive systems/ force and its transformation/ the rule of right/ the varieties of institutionalized power/ political cycles/ the middle classes/ downfall of regimes/ classess/ castes, estates, status groups, elites/ citizenship: a potentially unique resource/ common features of hunting and gathering societies/ simple horticultural societies/ advanced horticultural societies/ the hereditary transmission of power and privilege/ constitutionalism and its constraints/ agrarian societes: a generic type?/ common features of agrarian societies/ the governing class/ the state, the ruler and social inequality/ the retainer classes/ the merchant class/ the priestly class/ the peasant class/ the artisan class/ unclean and degraded classes/ the expendables/ common features of industrial societies/ political class system/ property class system/ the entrepreneurial class/ class of party functionaries/ the managerial class/ the military class/ the professional class/ the clerical class/ the sales class/ the working class/ the farming class/ the unemployed and slave-labor classes/ the educational class system/ racial, ethnic and religious class systems/ class system based on sex/ class system based on age/ vertical mobility/ prestige stratification etc.

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Book Description:

"A far-ranging and profound inquiry into the causes and effects of human inequality as well as into the foundations and consequences of political and economic power. . . . In a tour de force of sweeping scholarship Lenski guides us through the centuries to the most remote corners of the earth. . . . A masterpiece of comparative social analysis."--Heinz Eulau, American Political Science Review

From the Back Cover:

Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Text
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0070371652
• ISBN 13: 9780070371651
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Number of pages: 495