Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification - Softcover

Lenski, Gerhard E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807841196 ISBN 13: 9780807841198

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984

Synopsis

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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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: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0807841196
• ISBN 13: 9780807841198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 525