This text provides coverage of research and theory relating to social stratification in the US and selected international societies. It adopts general conflict principles as its theoretical orientation, and focuses on the development and maintenance of the structure of inequality. This edition has been updated to include data from the 1990 census and features examples, figures and tables. A new chapter on race, ethnicity and gender focuses on important issues of inequality. There are also new chapters on Germany and on Japan.
- ISBN10 007034258X
- ISBN13 9780070342583
- Publish Date 1 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw Hill Higher Education
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 592
- Language English