SOCIAL AND ETHNIC STRATIFICATION Global Social and Ethnic Relations

The author deals with problems of social and ethnic stratification . Regarding social stratification, he points to a fast class and stratum polarisation, generated by the increased importance of economic capital. On the other hand, the new nation state causes occurances of ethnic stratification (immigrants pushed into an underprivileged position) . Tolerant ethnic pluralism and interculturalism seem unlikely at the moment. social and ethnic stratification, nationalism, immigrants Trasformations in Transitional Period