Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender

by Robert A. Rothman

For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies. Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this text provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender-explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality.

Genres: Social Justice

288 pages, Paperback

Published July 29, 2004

Reviews

[Alexandra Silverstein · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Social status refers to collective subjective evaluations of groups by other members of that society using contemporary standards, values, and beliefs” (Rothman, 2005:120)
The quintessential book text for any sociology major. In this day and age we speak of many topics as a race war, without adressing the class struggle. You must know Weber, Marx and Dubois and their ideas of functionalism, allienation, exploitation, double consciousness, anomie, the unstoppable nature of a beaucracy etc. I wish it went into more detail of Kaunt's teachings.