Key concepts and contemporary approaches to structures inequality : capital, power and status.

Introduction: How We Think About Inequality; Part I. Theories and Concepts; Chapter One. Theories of Social Inequality; Chapter 2. Key Concepts; Part II. Stratification Today: The US Example; Chapter 3. The Twenty-First Century Setting; Chapter 4. Categorical Inequalities: Arguments and Evidence; Part III. Sources of Socioeconomic Inequality and Political Responses; Chapter 5. What Makes People Unequal?; Chapter 6, Politics, Policy, and Stratification;