Social Statification

One of the clearest ways in which American society is stratified is by race, and when looking for evidence of social stratification we are likely to find it most clearly demonstrated in the most racially segregated places in our society, as Haviland (2001) argues. Another way of looking at this fact (that high levels of racial segregation and high levels of social stratification tend to be linked to each other in American society) is that when one finds a highly segregated setting one is probably in a fertile place to begin to investigate evidence of social stratification (Haviland, 2001, p. 182).

I began my search for evidence of social stratification in my own city by engaging in what seemed to be just a bit of cheating: I decided to go to a place where I knew there would be such evidence by going to the local welfare office. Even though I was expecting to find evidence of stratification, I have to admit that I was really shocked. John Edwards, when he was running for the presidential nomination, often spoke about "tw

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