Stratifiction and Power
Subtitle: Structures of Class, Status and Command
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780745610412
Subjects: Political science & theory; Social classes; Sociology - General; Social Stratification; Sociology - Social Theory; Social status; Social structure
First sentence: The social stratification of a society can be most straightforwardly defined as its internal division into a hierarchy of distinct social groups, each having specific life chances and a distinctive style of life.