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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Ladder of Stratification Chapter 3 This Thing Called Power Chapter 4 The View from the Bottom Chapter 5 The Ladder of Social Class in America Chapter 6 The Invisible Classes Holding Up the Ladder Chapter 7 Shaking the Ladder—Social Movements for Equality and Democracy Part 8 What Do We Think about Stratification? Chapter 9 Believing in the Ladder—The Origins of Ideology Chapter 10 Stratification and Socialization—Growing Up on the Ladder Chapter 11 Keeping the Bottom Rungs in Place—Direct Social Control Part 12 How the Top Group Stays on Top Chapter 13 Webs on the Ladder—Networking Chapter 14 Red Tape and Gobbledygook—Bureaucracies and Power Chapter 15 Teaching Us What to Think—Bureaucracies of Ideological Social Control Chapter 16 Fact or Fantasy? Science and the Control of Ideas Part 17 Forces of Social Change Chapter 18 Technology and Stratification: On Which Rung Do the Robots Go? Chapter 19 The Brave New World—A Scary Place Chapter 20 Social Change in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 21 A Vision for the Future