This book provides a basic but comprehensive text on the topic of social stratification.

Carl L. Bankston III is Professor of Sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Lousiana.

List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: How We Think about Inequality; 1. Theories of Social Inequality; 2. Key Concepts; 3. The Twenty-First Century Setting; 4. Categorical Inequalities: Arguments and Evidence; 5. What Makes People Unequal?; 6. Politics, Policy, and Stratification; References; Index