Lisa A. Keister, Darby E. Southgate

Inequality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the knowledge accumulated by social stratification scholars and challenges students to apply this information to their social world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 779g
• ISBN-13: 9780521680028
• ISBN-10: 0521680026
• Artikelnr.: 33868335

Autorenporträt

Lisa A. Keister is a professor of sociology and the Director of the Markets and Management Program at Duke University. She conducts research on wealth inequality, asset accumulation and the causes of each. She is the author of Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got There (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Wealth in America (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Her research on Chinese corporations and the country's economic transition appeared in her book Chinese Business Groups (2000) as well as various articles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Social stratification and opportunities
2. Explaining stratification: theories and ideas
3. Understanding stratification: methods of evaluation
4. Class and the structure of inequality
5. The upper class and the elite
6. The middle class and workers
7. The working poor and the underclass
8. Social mobility
9. Education and inequality
10. Women and their changing positions
11. Race and ethnicity
12. Culture
13. Inequality across the globe
14. Public policy and social stratification.