| Sumario: | The article presents a discussion among the authors on the sociology and economics of class conflict. One of them John W. McConnell refers of that papers on which the discussion is centered. He says that both of the papers have been thoughtfully prepared and stimulating to those with an interest in the way society is organized and the processes by which social change takes place. Both acknowledge a great indebtedness to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for directing the thinking and research of social scientists to the importance of class in the structure of society, but each has seen fit in his own way to criticize and develop more fully the analysis of Marx. In his reply professor W. Parsons suggests that classes are based primarily on occupational differences; i.e., the function one performs in the productive process and the relationships established by that function which create differences in status between individuals. Since the family is the unit of social transmission in our society, the differences derived from the occupation of the chief breadwinner establish the status of the family and influence the attitudes and behavior of children.
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