The Process of Social Stratification among an Urban Southern Minority Population

FREQUENT reference is made to social class by both the laity and the professional sociologist, but few are precise or consistent about what a social class means in American society. However, it is apparent in the minds of the layman and the sociologist that members of American society make social differentiations among themselves and develop differential clusterings in social participation, values, and mannerisms. This results in varying degrees of social distance among these members so clustering. It will be attempted herein to reveal how the urban Negroes in Southern City,* a North Carolina city, socially stratify themselves. The total population according to the 1950 census numbers somewhat more than 70,000 with 27 percent being Negroes. The well-known method of studying social class by W. Lloyd Warner and his associates1 is used in this study

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