Class, Age and Sex Inequalities: A Comparative Analysis

FAIN: FT-13789-78

Anne Foner
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559)

A study to broaden the scope of social stratification as conventionally conceived and to formulate a common conceptual framework for various types of social inequality. Class stratification will be compared with more problematic forms of discrimination--age and sex. Based on the assumption that there is an underlying kinship among all types of social inequality, the three types of stratification will be analyzed in terms of the impact of social inequality on the individual the potential for within-stratum cohesion, likelihood of conflict between strata, individual mobility, and chancre in the overall nature of systems of stratification.