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Title The inequality reader : contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender / edited by David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelényi.

Imprint Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©2007.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305 I42IR    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 622 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The rise and fall of benign narratives about inequality / David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelenyi -- Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis, Wilbert E. Moore -- Inequality by design / Claude S. Fischer [and others] -- Inequality, too much of a good thing / Alan B. Krueger -- Classes in capitalism and pre-capitalism / Karl Marx -- Class, status, party / Max Weber -- Class counts / Erik Olin Wright -- The death of class / Jan Pakulski, Malcolm Waters -- Socioeconomic indexes for occupations : a review, update, and critique / Robert M. Hauser, John Robert Warren -- Inequality in earnings : trends and implications / Martina Morris, Bruce Western -- The power elite / C. Wright Mills -- Who rules America? : Power and politics / 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 -- Nickel-and-dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich -- United States poverty ina cross-national context / Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, and Gary Burtless -- Jobless poverty : a new form of social dislocation in the inner-city ghetto / William Julius Wilson -- American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass / Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton -- Neighborhoods, poverty, and children's well-being / Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry -- Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform / Sharon Hays -- Incarceration, unemployment, and inequality / Bruce Western -- Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1990s / Michael Omi, Howard Winant -- Immigration, intermarriage, and the challenges of measuring racial/ethnic identities / Mary C. Waters -- The new second generation : segmented assimilation and its variants / Alejandro Portes, Min Zhou -- Black identities : West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities / Mary C. Waters -- The declining significance of race : Blacks and changing American institutions / William Julius Wilson -- The continuing significance of race : antiblack discrimination in public places / Joe R. Feagin -- Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? : A field experiment on labor market discrimination / Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan -- Stereotype threat and African-American student achievement / Claude Steele -- Black wealth / white wealth : a new perspective on racial inequality / Melvin L. Oliver, Thomas M. Shapiro -- The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States / Herbert J. Gans.
The social construction of gender / Judith Lorber -- The time bind : when work becomes home and home becomes work / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The opt-out revolution / Lisa Belkin -- The time divide : work, family, and gender inequality / Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson -- Orchestrating impartiality : the impact of "blind" auditions on female musicians / Claudia Goldin, Cecilia Rouse -- Labor markets as queues : a structural approach to changing occupational sex composition / Barbara F. Reskin -- Egalitarianism and gender inequality / Maria Charles, David B. Grusky -- The within-job gender wage gap / Trond Petersen, Laurie A. Morgan -- Devaluation and the pay of comparable male and female occupations / Paula England -- The nanny chain / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The experience of social mobility / John H. Goldthorpe (in collaboration with Catriona Llewellyn and Clive Payne) -- No degree, and no way back to the middle / Timothy Egan -- Trends in class mobility : the post-war European experience / Robert Erikson, John H. Goldthorpe -- Social mobility in Europe / Richard Breen -- Are lifetime incomes growing more unequal? : Looking at new evidence on family income mobility / Katharine Bradbury, Jane Katz -- The process of stratification / Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree -- Family background and income in adulthood, 1961-1999 / David J. Harding [and others] -- The educational and early occupational attainment process / William H. Sewell, Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes -- Ain't no makin it : leveled aspiration in a low-income neighborhood / Jay Macleod -- The pecking order : which siblings succeed and why / Dalton Conley -- The strength of weak ties / Mark S. Granovetter -- Social networks and status attainment / Nan Lin -- Structural holes / Ronald S. Burt -- Life at the top in America isn't just better, it's longer / Janny Scott -- Health, income, and inequality / John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert, and Barbara Wolfe -- The social stratification of theatre, dance, and cinema attendance / Tak Wing Chan, John H. Goldthorpe -- Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau -- Digital inequality : from unequal access to differential use / Paul Dimaggio [and others] -- The realignment of U.S. presidential voting, 1948-2004 / Michael Hout, Benjamin Moodie -- Globalism's discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- The new geography of global income inequality / Glenn Firebaugh -- Does poverty cause terrorism? : The economics and the education of suicide bombers / Alan B. Krueger, Jitka Maleckova.
Subject Equality.
Social stratification.
Social classes.
Race.
Sex role.
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Race. (OCoLC)fst01086436
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
Social stratification. (OCoLC)fst01123370
Sociale ongelijkheid.
Sociale stratificatie.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Sekseverschillen.
Geschlecht (DE-588)4020547-2
Rasse (DE-588)4048440-3
Soziale Schichtung (DE-588)4077574-4
Soziale Ungleichheit (DE-588)4055736-4
inégalité sociale -- études diverses.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Grusky, David B.
Szelényi, Szonja, 1960-
ISBN 0813343453 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780813343457 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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