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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Benign Narratives About Inequality | |
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| Does Inequality Serve a Purpose? | |
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| Some Principles of Stratification | |
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| Inequality by Design | |
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| Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing | |
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| The Structure of Social Inequality | |
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| Class Approaches | |
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| Classes in Capitalism and Pre-capitalism | |
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| Class, Status, Party | |
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| Class Counts | |
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| Gradational Approaches | |
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| The Death of Class | |
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| Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique | |
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| Inequality in Earnings: Trends and Implications | |
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| Inequality at the Extremes | |
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| The Ruling Class, the Upper Class, and Elites | |
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| The Power Elite | |
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| Who Rules America?: Power and Politics | |
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| The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class | |
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| Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There | |
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| Poverty and the Underclass | |
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| The Experience of Poverty | |
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| Nickel-and-Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America | |
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| How Much Poverty Is There? | |
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| United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context | |
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| The Sources of Poverty and the Underclass | |
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| Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-city Ghetto | |
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| American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass | |
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| Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children's Well-Being | |
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| Poverty and Social Policy | |
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| Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform | |
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| Incarceration, Unemployment, and Inequality | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Inequality | |
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| Constructing Racial Categories | |
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| Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s | |
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| Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities | |
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| Modes of Incorporation | |
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| The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants | |
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| Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities | |
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| Change and Persistence in Racial and Ethnic Inequality | |
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| The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions | |
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| The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places | |
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| Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination | |
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| Stereotype Threat and African-American Student Achievement | |
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| Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality | |
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| The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States | |
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| Gender Inequality | |
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| Constructing Categories | |
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| The Social Construction of Gender | |
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| Labor Force Participation | |
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| The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work | |
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| The Opt-Out Revolution | |
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| The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality | |
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| Discrimination | |
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| Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians | |
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| Sex Segregation | |
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| Labor Markets as Queues: A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition | |
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| Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality | |
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| The Gender Gap in Wages | |
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| The Within-Job Gender Wage Gap | |
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| Devaluation and the Pay of Comparable Male and Female Occupations | |
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| Globalization and Gender | |
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| The Nanny Chain | |
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| Generating Inequality | |
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| The Experience of Mobility | |
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| The Experience of Social Mobility | |
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| No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle | |
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| The Structure of Social and Economic Mobility | |
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| Trends in Class Mobility: The Post-War European Experience | |
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| Social Mobility in Europe | |
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| Are Lifetime Incomes Growing More Unequal?: Looking at New Evidence on Family Income Mobility | |
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| Status and Income Attainment | |
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| Basic Models | |
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| The Process of Stratification | |
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| Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961-1999 | |
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| Social Psychological Models | |
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| The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process | |
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| Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood | |
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| Sibling Models | |
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| The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why | |
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| Social Capital, Networks, and Attainment | |
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| The Strength of Weak Ties | |
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| Social Networks and Status Attainment | |
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| Structural Holes | |
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| The Consequences of Inequality | |
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| Health | |
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| Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer | |
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| Health, Income, and Inequality | |
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| Culture and Lifestyles | |
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| The Social Stratification of Theatre, Dance, and Cinema Attendance | |
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| Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life | |
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| Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differential Use | |
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| Politics | |
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| The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2004 | |
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| Globalization and Inequality | |
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| Globalism's Discontents | |
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| The New Geography of Global Income Inequality | |
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| Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?: The Economics and the Education of Suicide Bombers | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| About the Book | |
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| Index | |