Stratification and Power ：Structures of Class, Status and Command

Publication subTitle ：Structures of Class, Status and Command

Author： John Scott  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9780745687773

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780745610429

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780745610429

Subject： C91 Sociology

Language： ENG

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This volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and a distinctive contribution to the analysis of class, status and power.

John Scott argues that Max Weber's conceptual framework - reconstructed and enlarged - provides the basis for integrating what have been considered up to now as divergent approaches to stratification studies. Marxist theories of class and economic division, normative functionalist theories of status and cultural division, and elitist theories of command and authoritarian division all find their place in the proposed framework. Each theoretical approach is illustrated through empirical investigations undertaken by writers associated with them. Recent work by Dahrendorf, Wright and Goldthorpe is also examined, and it is shown how their arguments contribute to a theoretical synthesis in the analysis of stratification.

Stratification and Power will be much appreciated by students and academics alike in the social sciences. The clarity of its style and the significance of its contribution have made it a leading text in its field.

Chapter

Cover

Title Page

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

1. Images of Stratification

Pre-modem hierarchies: the language of status

Modernity and the language of class

A post-modern discourse of stratification?

2. From Max Weber: a Framework

Stratification and domination

Class situations and social classes

Status situations and social estates

Class, status and party

Command situations and social blocs

Conclusion

3. Class, Property and Market

Marx and Marxism

The Manifesto model

Possession, class and consciousness

Economic foundations of capitalist class relations

The case of the capitalist class

4 . Status, Community and Prestige

Values, norms and positions

Functionalism, Parsons and the status model

Warner and the American case

Paramount values and national status

5. Command, Authority and Elites

Mosca and the political elite

Pareto and the governing elite

Bureaucracy, technique and the managerial elite

Djilas, Voslensky and the communist case

6. Property, Authority and Class Relations

Dahrendorf: authority embraced

Wright: authority denied, and reinstated

7. Structures of Social Stratification

Stratification and power situations

Mapping power situations

Mapping social strata

Comparing stratification systems

8. The Question of the Working Class

Notes

References

Index

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