Generating Images of Stratification: A Formal Theory

"Generating Images of Stratification" is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. This book is a self-contained presentation. In respect to the background sociological facts and theoretical ideas and also the formal methods this book provides clear and simple accounts accompanied by examples. It features a theoretical research program. The emphasis is on theory development, involving a series of theoretical models constructed within a core framework of principles and methods. It deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality. We know from research that how people perceive the stratification system of a society depends upon their position in that system. So the problem is: What process generates this regularity and thereby explains empirical generalizations about the social structuration of images? It constructs generative theoretical models. This book is an extended presentation of 'generative theory' in sociology, a formal method of producing effective theoretical explanations. "Generating Images of Stratification" is of interest to: mathematical sociologists and formal theorists in sociology; sociologists interested in social stratification; methodologists, both in sociology and in other fields; philosophers of social science; and, theoretical scientists and mathematicians who are interested in applying their analytical tools to social science topics.

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