On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
All social struggle is evidenced by the rise, first of economic, then of social classes, among a homogeneous population.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois presents a sociological theory on the development of social and economic classes within a population undergoing struggle.
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