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| Preface | |
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| Sociology and Stratification | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives on Stratification | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Max Weber | |
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| Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore | |
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| Ralf Dahrendorf | |
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| Gerhard Lenski | |
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| A Strategy for the Study of Stratification | |
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| Historical and International Dimensions of Stratification | |
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| Levels of Analysis and Stratification | |
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| Power and Stratification | |
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| Social Class and Stratification: Occupational Prestige and Class Identification | |
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| Occupational Prestige | |
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| Occupational Prestige in the United States | |
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| The Meaning of Occupational Prestige | |
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| Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Occupational Prestige | |
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| The Stability of Occupational Prestige over Time | |
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| The Stability of Occupational Prestige across Societies? | |
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| Class Identification | |
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| Patterns of Class Identification | |
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| The Meaning of Class Identification | |
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| A Note on Employed Married Women | |
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| Social Class and Stratification: Mobility and Status Attainment | |
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| Social Mobility | |
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| Social Mobility in the United States | |
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| Social Mobility in Other Nations | |
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| Social Structure and Mobility | |
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| The Reproduction of the Class Structure | |
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| International Variations in Mobility | |
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| Status Attainment | |
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| Status Attainment in the United States | |
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| Status Attainment in Other Nations | |
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| The Individual and Status Attainment | |
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| A Vignette | |
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| Socialization and Status Attainment | |
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| Gender and Stratification | |
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| Dimensions of Gender Stratification | |
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| Gender Stratification in the United States | |
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| Gender Stratification in Other Nations | |
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| Some Consequences of Gender Stratification | |
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| Authority and Gender | |
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| Victimization and Gender | |
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| The Individual and Gender Stratification | |
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| Women''s Choices | |
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| Discrimination against Women | |
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| Social Structure and Gender Stratification | |
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| The Decline of Gender Stratification | |
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| The Continuation of Gender Stratification | |
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| Race/Ethnicity and Stratification | |
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| Dimensions of Racial and Ethnic Stratification | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Stratification in the United States | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Other Nations | |
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| Some Consequences of Racial and Ethnic Inequality | |
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| The Individual and Racial and Ethnic Stratification | |
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| Public Place Discrimination | |
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| Discrimination by Organizations | |
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| Social Structure and Racial and Ethnic Stratification | |
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| Historical Variations in Racial and Ethnic Group Mobility | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Stratification Today | |
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| Political Participation and Power | |
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| Types of Political Participation | |
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| Voting | |
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| Partisanship | |
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| Unruliness | |
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| The Rate of Voting | |
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| Voting in the United States | |
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| Voting in Other Nations | |
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| The Role of Money in Elections | |
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| The Cost of Winning | |
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| Money, Winning, and Reelection | |
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| Where Does the Money Come From? Two Examples | |
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| Social Structure and Political Participation | |
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| The Structure of Voting | |
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| The Sources of Partisanship | |
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| Money and Anomie | |
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| The Rich | |
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| The Characteristics of the Rich | |
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| Counting the Rich | |
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| The Basis of Great Wealth | |
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| Top Wealthholders | |
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| The Historical Trend in the Distribution of Wealth | |
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| The Kuznets Hypothesis | |
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| The Colonial Era | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| The Trend Since 1980 | |
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| The Origin and Expansion of Wealth | |
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| Power and Wealth Inequality | |
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| Social Class and Lifestyle | |
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| The Middle Class | |
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| Social Class and Job Perquisites | |
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| Private Pensions | |
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| Medical Insurance | |
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| Sick Leave | |
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| Disability Insurance | |
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| Vacation and Personal Leave Time | |
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| Top Level Perquisites | |
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| Power and Job Perquisites | |
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| Social Class, Income Inequality, and Income Transfers | |
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| Social Class and Income | |
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| Trends in Income Inequality | |
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| Tax Expenditures and Income Inequality | |
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| Power and Income Inequality | |
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| Social Class and Lifestyle | |
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| The Working Class | |
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| Social Class and Occupation | |
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| Working-Class and Middle-Class Occupations | |
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| Social Class and Job Setting | |
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| Social Class and Job Security | |
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| The Human Consequences of Unemployment | |
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| A Note on the Meaning of Work | |
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| Economic Deprivation | |
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| Psychological Stress | |
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| Familial Disruption | |
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| Social Class and Lifestyle | |
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| On the Working Class | |
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| The Poor | |
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| Dimensions of Poverty | |
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| Poverty in the United States | |
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| Poverty in Other Nations | |
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| The Measurement of Poverty | |
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| Are the Poor Really Poor? | |
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| Public Assistance and Poverty | |
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| Characteristics of Public Assistance Programs | |
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| The Paradox of Public Assistance | |
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| The Benefits of Poverty | |
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| The Individual and Poverty | |
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| Age | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Family Characteristics | |
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| Low-Wage Job Skills | |
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| Work Experience | |
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| Social Structure and Poverty | |
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| The Long-Term Fall in the Poverty Rate | |
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| The U.S | |
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| Poverty Rate Today | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| The United States in Global Context | |
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| Poverty and Inequality in the United States and Developing Nations | |
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| Inequality in the United States and Western Nations | |
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| Some Practical Strategies for Reducing Inequality | |
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| Reflections on the Study of Stratification | |
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| Objectivity in the Study of Stratification | |
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| Research Methods in the Study of Stratification | |
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| Paradox in the Study of Stratification | |
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| Appendix: Hypothesis Discussed in The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |