In the context of recent debate on the ongoing relevance of the class concept, many people argue that the semantic of classes has lost earlier attractivity. Bordieu begins this chapter with an overview of how he thinks society is stratified. There are fractions within each class which correspond to different lifestyles through the habitus. The habitus is a system of choices that are influenced by inherited asset structures. Davis and Moore are interested in the relationship between stratification and the rest of the social order.
Stratification is defined as the unequal rights and perquisites of different positions in a society.
Stratification supplies this mechanism. He is interested in the mode in which this process occurs and in how social classes in turn are related to other social forms. Giddens begins by stating that he will use the term ''class'' to mean roughly what Weber meant when he used the term ''social class''. An explanation for the empirical findings may be found in two main strands of class analysis. While RGSC in particular has many problems which need to be resolved, we should not forget that it has been a very successful empirical tool whose use has had profound influence on social policy for several decades.