Seymour Martin Lipset

Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union.

The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address

Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy

The conditions associated with the existence and stability of democratic society have been a leading concern of political philosophy. In this paper the problem is attacked from ...

Agrarian Socialism

A Sociologist Looks at History

Social Mobility in Industrial Society

In a careful analysis of the existing literature, the authors marshal an imposing array of evidence in support of their major argument that social mobility is an integral and co...

ARE SOCIAL CLASSES DYING?

New forms of social stratification are emerging. Much of our thinking about stratification - from Marx, Weber, and others - must be recast to capture these new developments. Soc...

THE DECLINING POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL CLASS

Social classes have not died, but their political significance has declined substantially; this justifies a shift from class-centred analysis towards multi-causal explanations o...