It is a fortunate grocer who is able to collect 80 per cent. He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts. They give you a lot of trouble to collect, and nobody else will trouble to listen. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. I beg you, sir, to collect your spirits, and to listen to me calmly.
Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability. Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups.
Gerhard Lenski Notes. Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification, 1966, New York: McGraw-Hill book Company. Chapter 2/ Man and Society. The chief objective of this chapter is to set forth certain postulates about the nature of man and society which form the foundation for the emerging synthesis. Some are drawn from the conservative tradition, some from the radical, and some from neither (1966, p.25).