Pecking Order A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become

Name: Pecking Order A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
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ISBN: 9780375713811

ISBN-10: 0375713816

ISBN-13: 9780375713811

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dalton Conley

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The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing — or so we like to think. But if that’s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley shatters our notions of how our childhoods affect us, and why we become who we are. Economic and social inequality among adult siblings is not the exception, Conley asserts, but the norm: over half of all inequality is within families, not between them. And it is each family’s own “pecking order” that helps to foster such disparities. Moving beyond traditionally accepted theories such as…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.98" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.484




Inequality Starts at Home: An Introduction to the Pecking Order



Butterflies in Bialystok, Meteors in Manila: The Nature-Nurture Red Herring



Love is a Pie: Birth Order and Number of Siblings



Death, Desertion, Divorce: When Bad Things Happen to Good Families



Movin' on up, Movin' on out: Mobility and Sibling Differences



Legacies and Role Models, Fat and Skin: Gender Dynamics in the Family



Random Acts of Kindness (and Cruelty): Outside Influences on Sibling Success



From Tribes to Markets: Conclusions, Implications, and Insinuations


About the Pecking Order: A Technical Appendix


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index