An examination of how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender and racial inequalities. This second edition retains its argument for an emerging "double-diamond" social structure and is revised to include new sections, concepts, figures and tables.

The second edition combines scholarship with an engaging style and flashes of comic relief-with several cartoons by some of the best satirists today. The book, accessibly written for undergraduate students, has been widely adopted in courses on stratification, economic sociology, and American society. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Class in America
Separate Realities: The Dream and the Iceberg
The Global Economy and the Privileged Class
The Invisible Class Empire
The Information Industry
Educating for Privilege: Dreaming, Streaming, and Creaming
The Pacification of Everyday Life
Class in the Twenty-first Century: Consolidation and Resistance.