Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective /
"With income inequality on the rise and the ongoing economic downturn, the causes, consequences, and politics of inequality are undergoing a fundamental transformation. Updated and highly accessible, the fourth edition of Social Stratification provides refreshing take on existing theories, inco...
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Boulder, CO :
Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The functions and dysfunctions of inequality. Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore
- Some principles of stratification : a critical analysis / Melvin M. Tumin
- Inequality by design / Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss -
- Inequality in comparative perspective. A compressed history of inequality / David B. Grusky and Katherine R. Weisshaar - The welfare state and redistribution / Gøsta Esping-Andersen and John Myles - Top incomes in the long run of history / Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez - The race between education and technology / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz - Unions, norms, and the rise of U.S. wage inequality / Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfield - Why is income inequality growing? / Robert Frank - Winner-take-all politics : public policy, political organization, and the precipitous rise of top incomes in the United States / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson - Leapfrogs and the surge in executive pay / Thomas A. DiPrete, Gregory M. Eirich, and Matthew Pittinsky - The winners of the third industrial revolution / Yujia Liu and David B. Grusky -
- The structure of inequality. Alienation and social classes; Classes in capitalism and pre-capitalism; Ideology and class / Karl Marx - Class and class conflict in industrial society / Ralf Dahrendorf - A general framework for the analysis of class structure / Erik Olin Wright - Class conflict in the capitalist world economy / Immanuel Wallerstein - Class, status, party; Status groups and classes; Open and closed relationships / Max Weber - The class structure of the advanced societies / Anthony Giddens - Marxism and class theory : a bourgeois critique / Frank Parkin - Is there a status order in contemporary British society? / Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe - The division of labor in society / Emile Durkheim - The changing form of inequality / Kim A. Weeden and David B. Grusky - Occupational prestige in comparative perspective / Donald J. Treiman - Occupational grading and occupational prestige / John H. Goldthorpe and Keith Hope - Prestige or socioeconomic scales in the study of occupational achievement? / David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser - Socioeconomic indexes for occupations : a review, update, and critique / Robert M. Hauser and John Robert Warren - Foundations of a rent-based class analysis / Aage B. Sørensen - From income inequality to economic inequality / Amartya K. Sen -
- The ruling class, elites, and the upper class. The ruling class / Gaetano Mosca - The power elite / C. Wright Mills - Elites and power / Anthony Giddens - Who rules America? / G. William Domhoff - The future of intellectuals and the rise of the new class / Alvin W. Gouldner - Bobos in paradise : the new upper class and how they got there / David Brooks - Post-Communist managerialism / Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, and Eleanor Townsley - China's evolving oligarchy / Andrew G. Walder -
- Poverty and the underclass. Nickel and dimed / Barbara Ehrenreich - Low-income urban fathers and the "package deal" of family life / Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, and Joanna Miranda Reed - Being poor, black, and American / William Julius Wilson - Poverty and the Great Recession / Sheldon Danziger, Koji Chavez, and Erin Cumberworth - How rich countries life up the poor / Lane Kenworthy - Taxing the poor : how some states make poverty worse / Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien - American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass / Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton - Legacies of inequality / Robert Sampson - Does changing neighborhoods change lives? / Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum - The legacy of multigenerational disadvantage / Patrick Sharkey and Felix Elwert - Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children / James J. Heckman - The long reach of early childhood poverty / Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson - Stressing out the poor / Gary W. Evans, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Pamela Kato Klebanov - Incarceration and social inequality / Bruce Western and Becky Pettit
- Who gets ahead? A refined model of occupational mobility / David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser - Trends in class mobility : the post-war European experience / Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe - Social mobility in Europe / Richard Breen - It's a decent bet that our children will be professors too / Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, and Reinhard Pollak - Intergenerational income mobility / Gary Solon - Advantage in comparative perspective / John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, Timothy Smeeding, and James A. Wilson - The process of stratification / Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree - Inequality : a reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America / Christopher Jencks, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert Gintis, Barbara Heyns, and Stephen Michelson - Explaining educational differentials / Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe - The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor / Sean F. Reardon - Nonpersistent inequality in educational attainment / Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller, and Reinhard Pollak - Determined to succeed / Michelle Jackson - Towards a theory of inequality in higher education / Sigal Alon - Does college still have equalizing effects? / Florencia Torche - Who benefits most from college? / Jennie E. Brand and Yu Xie - The educational and early occupational attainment process / William H. Sewell, Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes - Ain't no makin' it : leveled aspirations in a low-income neighborhood / Jay MacLeod - A new social psychological model of educational attainment / Stephen L. Morgan - The dual labor market : theory and implications / Michael J. Piore - An outline of a theory of the matching of persons to jobs / Aage B. Sørensen and Arne L. Kalleberg - The rise of precarious work / Arne L. Kalleberg - Little labor : how union decline is changing the American landscape / Jake Rosenfeld - The strength of weak ties / Mark S. Granovetter - Social Networks and status attainment / Nan Lin - Structural holes / Ronald S. Burt - Networks, race, and hiring / Roberto M. Fernandez and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo - When do social networks increase inequality? / Paul DiMaggio and Filiz Garip -
- Race and ethnicity. Racial formation in the United States / Michael Omi and Howard Winant - The dynamics of racial fluidity and inequality / Aliya Saperstein and Andrew M. Penner - A theory of ethnic antagonism : the split labor market / Edna Bonacich - The immigrant enclave : theory and empirical examples / Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning - Assimilation theory for an era of unprecedented diversity / Richard D. Alba and Victor Nee - The new second generation : segmented assimilation and its variants / Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou - Why replenishment strengthens racial and ethnic boundaries / Tomás R. Jiménez - Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on labor market discrimination / Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan - Stereotype threat and African-American student achievement / Claude Steele - Marked : race, crime, and finding work in an era of mass incarceration / Devah Pager - The declining significance of race : Blacks and changing American institutions; The declining significance of race : revisited and revised / William Julius Wilson - How do Latino immigrants fit into the racial order? / Reanne Frank, Ilana Redstone Akresh, and Bo Lu -
- Gender inequality. The time bind : when work becomes home and home becomes work / Arlie Russell Hochschild - The opt-out revolution / Lisa Belkin - Opting out? / Christine Percheski - Orchestrating impartiality : the impact of "blind" auditions on female musicians / Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse - Getting a job : is there a motherhood penalty? / Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik - Do openly gay men experience employment discrimination? / András Tilcsik - Rethinking employment discrimination and its remedies / Barbara F. Reskin - Discrimination : conscious or nonconscious? / Trond Petersen - The structure and process of sex segregation / William T. Bielby - Revolving doors : sex segregation and women's careers / Jerry A. Jacobs - Labor markets as queues : a structural approach to changing occupational sex composition / Barbara F. Reskin - Glass ceilings in corporate law firms / Elizabeth H. Gorman and Julie A. Kmec - Egalitarianism and gender inequality / Maria Charles and David B. Grusky - The within gender wage gap / Trond Petersen and Laurie A. Morgan - Devaluation and the pay of comparable male and female occupations / Paula England - Why do female occupations pay less? / Tony Tam - The sources of the gender pay gap / Francine Blau - Why race, class, and gender matter / Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins - Double Jeopardy / Emily Greenman and Yu Xie - The gender revolution : uneven and stalled / Paula England - The anti-feminist backlash and recent trends in gender attitudes / David Cotter, Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman - The persistence of gender inequality / Cecilia L. Ridgeway -
- The consequences of inequality. Distinction : a social critique of the judgment of taste / Pierre Bourdieu - The social stratification of theater, dance, and cinema attendance / Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe - Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau - Income inequality and income segregation / Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff - What's the matter with Kansas? / Thomas Frank - The realignment of U.S. presidential voting / Michael Hout and Daniel Laurison - Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment : two scientific challenges / Johannes Siegrist and Michael Marmot - The fundamentals of fundamental causality / Karen Lutfey and Jeremy Freese - Why do morality disparities persist? / Richard Miech, Fred Pampel, Jinyoung Kim, and Richard G. Rogers -
- The future of inequality. The coming of post-industrial society / Daniel Bell - Social foundations of post-industrial economies / Gøsta Esping-Andersen - The labor force and the Great Recession / Michael Hout and Erin Cumberworth - Post-socialist stratification / Victor Nee - Making capitalism without capitalists / Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, and Eleanor Townsley - Elite opportunity in transitions from state socialism / Andrew G. Walder - The evolution of modern stratification systems / John W. Meyer - Social justice and social divisions / Anthony Giddens - Globalism's discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz - The new geography of global income inequality / Glenn Firebaugh.