| Sumario: | The article studies various aspects of social class, affiliation and ethnic prejudice. It is observed that despite the progress in the social class concept there exists a dearth of consensus in the field of social stratification. The disagreement embraces every phase of the field, its concept, methodology and findings. General agreement seems to have been accomplished on one point in the social class phenomena, and that says that differences in social class affiliation should have a bearing on differential social behavior. It is generally agreed that without the distinction of differential behavior on the part of the different segments of society there would be no purpose in its study. The article makes an attempt to close the gap one step toward a codification of the class concept. In line with the theoretical frame of reference and the hypothesis that differential social class affiliation will be seen in differential behavior attitudes, the article considers the variables of prejudice and religiosity. It is also the concern of this study to verify the usefulness of the mailed questionnaire approach to gathering social phenomena data. The problem of the mailed questionnaire approach with its accompanying drawback of the relatively small percentage of returns and from making inference to the universe of discourse has as yet not been solved.
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