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200 10$aEthnic Stratification and Structural Pluralism in Guyana /$fby Duane Edwards
205   $a1st ed. 2024.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024.
215   $a1 online resource (217 pages)
311 08$aPrint version: Edwards, Duane Ethnic Stratification and Structural Pluralism in Guyana Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031553516 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a1. Introduction -- 2. Structural Pluralism in Guyana -- 3. Historical Evolution of Social Differentiation and Stratification -- 4. The Role of Social Structures -- 5. Role of Institutions -- 6. The Role of Ideology -- 7. Conclusion.
330   $aThrough a case study of Guyana, a society in which structural pluralism and ethnic/racial divisions coincide to a large extent, this book explores the specific way in which social structures interact with and affect social institutions, ethnic stratification, social actions, and both group-based and purportedly universalist ideologies. The book examines how a system of differentiation and stratification, inherited from colonial times, persists in its essential form in the current time despite attempts to dislodge it. While not falling prey to a structural determinism, the book argues, based on the evidence provided through both a historical sociological review of historical evidence and a presentist analysis of cross-sectional data on business ownership, that actions which coincide with the logic of social structures tend to prevail over actions which take that logic for granted. It is for this reason that political and social players with grand ideals have been less successful in their attempts to bridge the social and economic divides in the country, than those players whose interests coincided with the structural divides.
606   $aSocial structure
606   $aEquality
606   $aEconomic sociology
606   $aLatin America$xEconomic conditions
606   $aSocial Structure
606   $aEconomic Sociology
606   $aLatin American/Caribbean Economics
615  0$aSocial structure.
615  0$aEquality.
615  0$aEconomic sociology.
615  0$aLatin America$xEconomic conditions.
615 14$aSocial Structure.
615 24$aEconomic Sociology.
615 24$aLatin American/Caribbean Economics.
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