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Social Differentiation in Colonial Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Emilio Willems
Emilio Willems
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Vanderbilt University
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To the extent that the social sciences have been concerned with thestratification of Latin American societies they have shown a well-knowntendency to dichotomize their structures into a small upper class of wealthy and powerful landowners and a poor and powerless lower class hetero-geneously composed of rural workers, urban proletarians, petty traders, artisans, and the like. As a rule, the emergence of new classes and thegrowing internal differentiation of emergent or traditional classes are somewhat reluctantly admitted only as the societies of Latin America have demonstrated the ability to depart from their agrarian tradition and topursue the irreversible course of modernization. There has been a strong inclination to ignore or to minimize those aspects of the social structure which suggest a higher degree of complexity than the stereotype of a two-class system seems to indicate.

Type
Myth and Middle Classes
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 31 - 49
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1970

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