Concepts of Social Stratification

Introduction: Why Study the Semantics of Social Stratification? Karl Marx's Critique of Political Economy Max Weber: Political Economy as Sociology Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies: Social Differentiation and Functional Sociology Alexis de Tocqueville's Political Sociology In Dispraise of Economics: Thorstein Veblen The City and Human Ecology: The Urban Sociology of the Chicago School (Robert Park and William Burgess) The Origins of Cultural and Community Studies: Robert and Helen Lynd's Anatomy of Middletown The Political Sociology of C.Wright Mills: An Anatomy of the American Power Structure Dissecting the 'Fine Distinctions' in America's System of Social Stratification: Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb Maintaining the Equilibrium of Freedom and Order: Talcott Parsons' Resuscitation of Functionalism From 'Black Nation' to 'Black Bourgeoisie' to 'Urban Underclass'-the sociology of African American Communities: W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin E. Frazier and William J. Wilson Back to the Future: Mike Davis' and Erik Olin Wright's Marxist Interpretations of Class Struggle in the U.S. Tocqueville Revisited: American Exceptionalism in the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset Epilogue: The Semantics of Social Stratification Index