Durable Inequality

Name: Durable Inequality
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ISBN: 9780520221703

ISBN-10: 0520221702

ISBN-13: 9780520221703

Edition: 1998

Authors: Charles Tilly

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Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include "Why?" (Princeton) and "Democracy".



Acknowledgments



Of Essences and Bonds



From Transactions to Structures



How Categories Work



Modes of Exploitation



How to Hoard Opportunities



Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality



The Politics of Inequality



Future Inequalities


References


Index