TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tumin,Melvin M.
TI  - Social stratification : the forms and functions of inequality
SN  - 0138186596 
U1  - 305 
PY  - 1985///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 
PB  - Prentice-Hall
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - Equality
N1  - Includes bibliographies and index; Social stratification: five basic characteristics --
Historical and contemporary thought and theory --
How societies generate stratification: differentiation and ranking of statuses --
How societies generate stratification: assessing the social importance of statuses --
How societies generate stratification: differential rewarding of statuses --
Basic elements and processes: variations in systems of stratification --
Property: concepts, measurements, and problems --
Prestige and honor: concepts, measurements, and problems --
Power: concepts, measurements, and problems --
The depth of inequality in property, prestige, power, and education --
The span of consequences: life chances and institutional patterns --
The span of consequences: life styles and beliefs, ideologies, and attitudes --
The shape of stratification systems: from aggregates to classes --
Socioeconomic mobility: concepts, measures, trends --
Some theoretical problems
ER  -