Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction. The mexican stratification system Class Formation, Mobility, and the Changing Perspective 1
5. Chapter 1 A combined structural and expressive approach to the study of social stratification 17
6. Chapter 2 Córdoba and its environs. Historical, Demographic, and Geographic Considerations 41
7. Chapter 3 The superordinate sector: The Ruling, Political, and Social Classes 48
8. Chapter 4 The middle stratum: The Middle and Lower Middle Classes and the Working Class 80
9. Chapter 5 The dispossessed: Rural Lumpen, Subsistence Peasants, and the Indian-Mestizo Dichotomy 104
10. Conclusion 136
11. Notes 148
12. Bibliography 161
13. Index 167