: Social Structure, Stratification, and Mobility . Anthony Leeds.

Social Stratification and Mobility : Two Decades of Cumulative Social Science

The last 25 years have been a period of cumulative social science in the sociological study of inequality and social mobility. This outcome stems both from the diffusion of new methods of quantitative analysis and from the use of a life-course conceptual model that fostered an incremental approach in research. On the other hand, this positivistic sociology of social stratification has not engen...

Social Stratification

The expression ‘social stratification’ refers to the positions held by individuals and groups in the structures of inequality existing in a society. Specifically, it denotes the classification of individuals and groups into different categories on the basis of the amount of one or more privileges enjoyed by the members of each category and/or the intensity of power that they are able to exert o...

Social Stratification

Structural Change and Men’s Work Lives: Transformations in Social Stratification and Occupational Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico

Social Stratification and Social-Class Analysis

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