ABSTRACT
The position of Lloyd Warner, in his Yankee City volumes, on local social stratification, is highly provocative, and can serve as a vehicle for a full discussion of the central problems involved. Besides his community studies, Warner and two colleagues have written another book solely on the topic of stratification. One's suspicions are aroused by its title: Social Class in America: The Evaluation of Status. 1 This should put the reader on his guard against the conceptual confusion that this title implies, which is the more surprising as there are numerous references to both Karl Marx and to Max Weber. The book is really written on three levels; it is a political tract, a manual of procedure for the measurement of social status and a theoretical treatise.
