Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
The author is a very sophisticated sociologist. He recognizes that no society--and certainly no complex society-is governed by a single determining force and that no complex society can be characterized in terms of any one feature of social structure. South Africa is at one and the same time a highly industrialized and a backward and impoverished rural society (a combination of characteristics which it shares with Italy, for example); like some other societies it is rigidly stratified along the lines of colour but it is also a class structured
Kuper et al. (Fri,) studied this question.