Inequality and social classes

Abstract

Faced with the terrible scenario of misery, environmental destruction and the "trivialization of death" that we are living in the XXI century, it is essential to recover the critical perspective, so forgotten in the "well-thinking" explanations of the academy, to put into it questions both the dogmas and the platitudes of the dominant discourse. It is in this perspective that the work presented to us by the sociologist Carlos Julio Báez Evertsz and entitled Inequality and Social Classes is inscribed. Composed of twenty-five chapters, this passionate and ambitious work offers us “a general panorama of social inequality and the different theoretical perspectives that explain it, focused on classes and social stratification, especially in the different class analyzes from Max Weber, Parsons and the functionalists, Marx and the classical Marxists, attempts at synthesis theories between Marxism and functionalism and to overcome both perspectives ”(p. 15). Exciting and ambitious at the same time, because although the work is based on an extensive, solid and rigorous bibliographic review, reading it is not cumbersome, nor cryptic. On the other hand, we can see both a scrupulous handling of the concepts and categories (economic and sociological) as well as an outstanding, if not enviable, knowledge of Marxist theory on the part of the author.