David B Grusky

Social Stratification

Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 1196
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 62mm
• Gewicht: 2263g
• ISBN-13: 9780367319496
• ISBN-10: 0367319497
• Artikelnr.: 57145960

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Resources for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
Introduction
The Stories We Tell About Inequality
The Functions and Dysfunctions of Inequality
Some Principles of Stratification
Some Principles of Stratification
Inequality by Design
Inequality in Comparative Perspective
Cross
Societal Differences
A Compressed History of Inequality
The Welfare State and Redistribution
Trends in Economic Inequality
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
The Race Between Education and Technology
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
Why Is Income Inequality Growing?
Winner
Take
All Politics
Leapfrogs and the Surge in Executive Pay
The Winners of the Third Industrial Revolution
The Structure of Inequality
Marxian Theories of Class
Alienation and Social Classes
Classes in Capitalism and Pre
Capitalism
Ideology and Class
Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure
Class Conflict in the Capitalist World Economy
Weberian Theories of Class
Class, Status, Party
Status Groups and Classes
Open and Closed Relationships
The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies
Marxism and Class Theory
Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?
Durkheimian Theories of Class
The Division of Labor in Society
The Changing Form of Inequality
Classic Gradationalism
Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective
Occupational Grading and Occupational Prestige
Prestige or Socioeconomic Scales in the Study of Occupational Achievement?
Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations
The New Gradationalism?
Foundations of a Rent
Based Class Analysis
From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality
The Ruling Class, Elites, and the Upper Class
Classic Statements
The Ruling Class
The Power Elite
Elites and Power
Contemporary Statements
Who Rules America?
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
Bobos in Paradise
Post
Communist Managerialism
China's Evolving Oligarchy
Poverty and the Underclass
The Experience of Poverty
Nickel and Dimed
Low
Income Urban Fathers and the "Package Deal" of Family Life
Poverty and the Economy
Being Poor, Black, and American
Poverty and the Great Recession
The Effects of Politics and Institutions
How Rich Countries Lift Up the Poor
Taxing the Poor
Neighborhoods and Segregation
American Apartheid
Legacies of Inequality
Does Changing Neighborhoods Change Lives?
The Legacy of Multigenerational Disadvantage
How Important is Early Childhood?
Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty
Stressing Out the Poor
Incarceration and Poverty
Incarceration and Social Inequality
Who Gets Ahead?
Class Mobility
A Refined Model of Occupational Mobility
Trends in Class Mobility
Social Mobility in Europe
It's a Decent Bet That Our Children Will Be Professors Too
Income Mobility
Intergenerational Income Mobility
Advantage in Comparative Perspective
Classic Models of Status Attainment
The Process of Stratification
Inequality
Education and Reproduction
Explaining Educational Differentials
The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment
Determined to Succeed
Toward a Theory of Inequality in Higher Education
Does College Still Have Equalizing Effects?
Who Benefits Most from College?
The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process
Ain't No Makin' It
A New Social Psychological Model of Educational Attainment
Labor Markets
The Dual Labor Market
An Outline of a Theory of the Matching of Persons to Jobs
The Rise of Precarious Work
Little Labor
Social Capital, Networks, And Attainment
The Strength of Weak Ties
Social Networks and Status Attainment
Structural Holes
Networks, Race, and Hiring
When Do Social Networks Increase Inequality?
Race and Ethnicity
Constructing Racial Categories
Racial Formation in the United States
The Dynamics of Racial Fluidity and Inequality
Classic Modes Of Incorporation
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism
The Immigrant Enclave
Assimilation Theory for an Era of Unprecedented Diversity
New Modes of Incorporation
The New Second Generation
Why Replenishment Strengthens Racial and Ethnic Boundaries
Discrimination
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?
Stereotype Threat and African
American Student Achievement
Marked
Are Racial and Ethnic Distinctions Declining in Significance?
The Declining Significance of Race
The Declining Significance of Race
How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order?
Are Recent Trends in Intermarriage Consistent with Assimilation Theory?
Gender Inequality
Labor Force Participation
The Time Bind
The Opt
Out Revolution
Opting Out?
Discrimination
Orchestrating Impartiality
Getting a Job
Do Openly Gay Men Experience Employment Discrimination?
Rethinking Employment Discrimination and Its Remedies
Discrimination
Sex Segregation
The Structure and Process of Sex Segregation
Revolving Doors
Labor Markets as Queues
Glass Ceilings in Corporate Law Firms
Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality
Gender Gap in Wages
The Within
Gender Wage Gap
Devaluation and the Pay of Comparable Male and Female Occupations
Why Do Female Occupations Pay Less?
The Sources of the Gender Pay Gap
How Gender Intersects
Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter
Double Jeopardy
A Stalling Out?
The Gender Revolution
The Anti
Feminist Backlash and Recent Trends in Gender Attitudes
The Persistence of Gender Inequality
The Consequences of Inequality
Lifestyles
Distinction
The Social Stratification of Theater, Dance, and Cinema Attendance
Unequal Childhoods
Income Inequality and Income Segregation
Politics and Attitudes
What's the Matter with Kansas?
The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting
Health
Health Inequalities and the Psychosocial Environment
The Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality
Why Do Mortality Disparities Persist?
The Future of Inequality
Industrialism and Post
Industrialism
The Coming of Post
Industrial Society
Social Foundations of Post
Industrial Economies
The Labor Force and the Great Recession
Post
Socialism
Post
Socialist Stratification
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists
Elite Opportunity in Transitions from State Socialism
Post
Modernity and High Modernity
The Evolution of Modern Stratification Systems
Social Justice and Social Divisions
Globalization and Inequality
Globalism's Discontents
The New Geography of Global Income Inequality