摘要：The operational and conceptual ambiguities that the notion of class has acquired in industrialized countries may lead one to assume on a priori grounds that class concepts could only have a limited application to areas where social structures are undergoing rapid transformation and where competing affiliations (such as ethnic, caste or religious loyalties) are more manifest determinants of an individual's social role. In the African context it has been possible to argue on the one hand that class formation and crystallization have not, and may never occur; or, on the other hand that if class structures are emerging, that these are of peripheral importance in the determination of social conflict.
其他摘要：The operational and conceptual ambiguities that the notion of class has acquired in industrialized countries may lead one to assume on a priori grounds that class concepts could only have a limited application to areas where social structures are undergoing rapid transformation and where competing affiliations (such as ethnic, caste or religious loyalties) are more manifest determinants of an individual's social role. In the African context it has been possible to argue on the one hand that class formation and crystallization have not, and may never occur; or, on the other hand that if class structures are emerging, that these are of peripheral importance in the determination of social conflict.
