Generating images of the shape of a class system

This paper builds on a formal theory of how certain observable properties of images of stratification and self‐location within an image are generated in ordinary social interactioa The new element is the attention to shape, involving the transformation of an actual distribution of actors in class locations into some distribution image. Such an image may resemble a simple form, such as a diamond or pyramid. As in all our work, such images depend upon the actor's class location. We derive general results and analyze a number of special cases in detail.