Publisher's Synopsis
This successor volume to "Class and Inequality in Pre-Industrial, Capitalist and Communist Societies" examines the most important issues and debates relating to inequality and stratificaton. It covers all the major concepts, including power, priviledge, prestige, class and status.;Topis discussed include: a critical examination of the major theoretical approaches to inequality and stratification; a discussion of key contemporary issues in capitalist and western industrial societies, such as the managerial revolution thesis and debates on the distribution of income; an assesssment of the recent social changes in Eastern Europe and how these have impacted on the system of inequality under communist regimes; and patterns of inequality, class and status in Third World and developing countries.
