此章主要分析了社会分层研究中的两个重要概念——阶级和阶层。

The chapter analysed two important concepts of the study of social stratification, class and stratum.

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他发现，失业率主要根据阶级不同而不同：中产阶级和白领阶层失业的可能性要小得多。

He finds that rates of joblessness differed primarily according to class: those in middle-class and white-collar occupations were far less likely to be unemployed.

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国家中至少有三种社会阶层，上层阶级（执政），中产阶级（商人，管理者）和下层阶级（农民，工人）。

States had at least three social levels, usually, an upper class of rulers, a middleclass comprised of managers and merchants, and a lower class of crop producers and agricultural laborers.

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