ABSTRACT
This opening chapter sets out a number of puzzling features that emerge from a close reading of Marshall's essay on citizenship, and the analytical and empirical agenda that they imply. After reviewing the basic contours of Marshall's argument, we move on to the unresolved issues embedded in his work, and the ways in which they are taken up and advanced in Lockwood's elaboration of civic stratification. We see how Lockwood reverses Marshall's problematic by focussing on the inequalities that can arise from the operation of citizenship, and how he considers the ways in which citizenship is both embedded in and contributes to the structure of social inequality.
