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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.
Chapter 1 The Communist Manifesto
Chapter 2 On Classes
Chapter 3 Class, Status, Party
Chapter 4 What Social Class is in America
Chapter 5 Some Principles of Stratification
Chapter 6 Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis
Chapter 7 Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique
Chapter 8 Class Analysis
Chapter 9 Women and Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism
Chapter 10 Capitalism, Patriarchy, and the Subordination of Women
Chapter 11 Theorizing Difference From Multiracial Feminism
Chapter 12 Double-Consciousness and the Veil
Chapter 13 Race and Class
Chapter 14 The Declining Significance of Race: From Racial Oppression to Economic Class Subordination
Chapter 16 Racial Formation
Chapter 17 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis
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.
— Angela J. Hattery, PHD, Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Delaware, Author: Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
This volume provides the sociology student with the essentials for a sophisticated theoretical understanding of social stratification in general, and class in particular. A great introduction to the classic and contemporary debates on class analysis for any student of inequality at any academic level.
— Dalton Conley, New York University
Even more now than when it first appeared, Social Class and Stratification is a welcome contribution to renewal of interest in class as the decisive force behind social inequalities. Teachers and students alike are once again in Rhonda Levine's debt for her edited collection of and introduction to the most current texts enlivening the debate over class power.
— Charles Lemert, University Professor of Social Theory, Emeritus, Wesleyan University