Download or read book Social Hierarchies, 1450 to the Present written by Roland Mousnier and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook comprising a social research study of social stratification and the classification of social structures from 1450 to the present - argues that there are three main ways in which societys may be organized (1) by caste, (2) by social class, and (3) by order or social role, and provides a typology of the main kinds of order-based society using primarily historical examples. Bibliography pp. 197 to 200 and references.