Social Class and Stratification

Rhonda F. Levine is professor of sociology at Colgate University. She is the author of numerous books, including most recently, Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline and Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York.

This is scholarship in the best sense of the word: politically engaged, theoretically and empirically informed, and powerfully argued. Complex yet comprehensible. The readings—from Karl Marx to Erik Wright—have been carefully selected and arranged. The strength of this book is the incorporation of non-class based inequalities—specifically race and gender. The inclusion of readings from the 'race, class, and gender' paradigm makes this book the most inclusive and expansive anthology available.

• Chapter 1 The Communist ManifestoChapter 2 On ClassesChapter 3 Class, Status, PartyChapter 4 What Social Class is in AmericaChapter 5 Some Principles of StratificationChapter 6 Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical AnalysisChapter 7 Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois CritiqueChapter 8 Class AnalysisChapter 9 Women and Stratification: A Case of Intellectual SexismChapter 10 Capitalism, Patriarchy, and the Subordination of WomenChapter 11 Theorizing Difference From Multiracial FeminismChapter 12 Double-Consciousness and the VeilChapter 13 Race and ClassChapter 14 The Declining Significance of Race: From Racial Oppression to Economic Class SubordinationChapter 16 Racial FormationChapter 17 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis