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Toward an Integrated Theory of Social Stratification
Author(s) -
Bowles Douglas
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2012.00870.x
Subject(s) - stratification (seeds) , social stratification , sociology , epistemology , class (philosophy) , reading (process) , argument (complex analysis) , sociological theory , mathematical economics , social science , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics , biology , seed dormancy , botany , germination , biochemistry , chemistry , dormancy
In the discipline of sociology, M arx, D urkheim, and W eber represent “classical” approaches to the study of stratification, from one or another of which most modern theory derives. In economics, V eblen's T heory of the L eisure C lass represents an under‐utilized alternative to M arxian class analysis. The argument advanced in this article is that a close reading of the introductory chapter to V eblen's T heory of the L eisure C lass provides a useful framework for productive integration of the diverse traditions of stratification theory and class analysis descending in sociological thought from M arx, D urkheim, and W eber.