Steven Brint

Book ReviewsStratification and Power: Structures of Class, Status and Command. By John Scott. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Pp. x1284.

court is to misrepresent not only what is practical but also what is possible in sociological study. It is to Scott’s great credit that these fundamental and protean problems of social stratification surface so naturally in his account. But whether his version of Weber can succeed in encompassing the complexity and multiplexity of meaning of the concept of class unfortunately remains undemonstrated.