num_pages: 525
description: Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social 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.
language: English
title: Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification
titlecomplete: Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification
genres: Sociology, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 31
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press