Pt. 1. Classical perspectives on social class. Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ; On classes / Karl Maex. ; Class, status, party / Max Weber. ; Related readings.
Pt. 2. American Stratification Theory. What social class is in America / W. Lloyd Warner, Marchia Meeker, and Kenneth Eells. ; Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore. ; Some principles of stratification: a critical analysis / Melvin M. Tumin. ; Related readings.
Pt. 3. Neo-Marxian and Neo-Weberian perspectives on social class. Marx and Weber: problems of class structure / Anthony Giddens. ; Marxism and class theory: a Bourgeois critique / Frank Parkin. ; Class analysis / Erik Oliln Wright. ; Related readings.
Pt. 4. Nonclass forms of inequality: statements on gender and racial stratification. The patriarchal family / Friedrich Engels. ; The position od women / Juliet Mitchell. ; Class, status, and gender / David Lockwood. ; Double-consciousness and the veil / W.E.B. DuBois. ; Facets of the negro problem / Gunnar Myrdal. ; Race and class / Oliver Cox. ; Toward a new vision: race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connections / Patricia Hill Collins ; Related readings.