Inequality Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

Name: Inequality Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender
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ISBN: 9780813343303

ISBN-10: 0813343305

ISBN-13: 9780813343303

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Grusky, Szonja Szelenyi

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The field of inequality emerged our of a set of classic texts-important works that students and scholars continue to read and to rely on to inform their ongoing research. Often controversial and deeply influential, these texts formed the field as we know it and serve as cornerstones even today. For the first time, these twenty classic texts have now been brought together in a new reader. Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, this important new volume provides: A solid introduction to fundamental concepts, theories, and empirical results. Carefully excerpted pieces that highlight the essential contributions while maintaining…

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List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/20/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Is Inequality Inevitable?



Some Principles of Stratification




Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis



The Structure of Social Inequality



Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism




Class, Status, Party




The Division of Labor in Society




Equality and Inequality in Modern Society or Social Stratification Revisited



Inequality at the Extremes



The Power Elite




Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto




American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass



Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequality



A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market




The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions




The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples




The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union




Labor Markets as Queues: A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition



Generating Inequality



Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System




The Process of Stratification




The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process




Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction



The Consequences of Inequality



The Theory of the Leisure Class




Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste



Index