ISBN:
9780429963193
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1196 pages)
Edition:
4th ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Grusky, David B Social Stratification : Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective
DDC:
305.5/12
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Resources for the Study of Poverty and Inequality -- 1. Introduction -- The Questions We Ask About Inequality -- The Stories We Tell About Inequality -- PART I: THE FUNCTIONS AND DYSFUNCTIONS OF INEQUALITY -- 2. Some Principles of Stratification -- 3. Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis -- 4. Inequality by Design -- PART II: INEQUALITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- CROSS-SOCIETAL DIFFERENCES -- 5. A Compressed History of Inequality -- 6. The Welfare State and Redistribution -- TRENDS IN ECONOMIC INEQUALITY -- 7. Top Incomes in the Long Run of History -- 8. The Race Between Education and Technology -- 9. Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality -- 10. Why Is Income Inequality Growing? -- 11. Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States -- 12. Leapfrogs and the Surge in Executive Pay -- 13. The Winners of the Third Industrial Revolution -- PART III: THE STRUCTURE OF INEQUALITY -- MARXIAN THEORIES OF CLASS -- 14. Alienation and Social Classes -- Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism -- Ideology and Class -- 15. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society -- 16. A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure -- 17. Class Conflict in the Capitalist World Economy -- WEBERIAN THEORIES OF CLASS -- 18. Class, Status, Party -- Status Groups and Classes -- Open and Closed Relationships -- 19. The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies -- 20. Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique -- 21. Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society? -- DURKHEIMIAN THEORIES OF CLASS -- 22. The Division of Labor in Society -- 23. The Changing Form of Inequality -- CLASSIC GRADATIONALISM
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24. Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective -- 25. Occupational Grading and Occupational Prestige -- 26. Prestige or Socioeconomic Scales in the Study of Occupational Achievement? -- 27. Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique -- THE NEW GRADATIONALISM? -- 28. Foundations of a Rent-Based Class Analysis -- 29. From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -- PART IV: THE RULING CLASS, ELITES, AND THE UPPER CLASS -- CLASSIC STATEMENTS -- 30. The Ruling Class -- 31. The Power Elite -- 32. Elites and Power -- CONTEMPORARY STATEMENTS -- 33. Who Rules America? -- 34. The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class -- 35. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There -- 36. Post-Communist Managerialism -- 37. China's Evolving Oligarchy -- PART V: POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS -- THE EXPERIENCE OF POVERTY -- 38. Nickel and Dimed -- 39. Low-Income Urban Fathers and the "Package Deal" of Family Life -- POVERTY AND THE ECONOMY -- 40. Being Poor, Black, and American -- 41. Poverty and the Great Recession -- THE EFFECTS OF POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS -- 42. How Rich Countries Lift Up the Poor -- 43. Taxing the Poor: How Some States Make Poverty Worse -- NEIGHBORHOODS AND SEGREGATION -- 44. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass -- 45. Legacies of Inequality -- 46. Does Changing Neighborhoods Change Lives? -- 47. The Legacy of Multigenerational Disadvantage -- HOW IMPORTANT IS EARLY CHILDHOOD? -- 48. Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children -- 49. The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty -- 50. Stressing Out the Poor -- INCARCERATION AND POVERTY -- 51. Incarceration and Social Inequality -- PART VI: WHO GETS AHEAD? -- CLASS MOBILITY -- 52. A Refined Model of Occupational Mobility -- 53. Trends in Class Mobility: The Post-War European Experience
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54. Social Mobility in Europe -- 55. It's a Decent Bet That Our Children Will Be Professors Too -- INCOME MOBILITY -- 56. Intergenerational Income Mobility -- 57. Advantage in Comparative Perspective -- CLASSIC MODELS OF STATUS ATTAINMENT -- 58. The Process of Stratification -- 59. Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America -- EDUCATION AND REPRODUCTION -- 60. Explaining Educational Differentials -- 61. The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor -- 62. Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment -- 63. Determined to Succeed -- 64. Towards a Theory of Inequality in Higher Education -- 65. Does College Still Have Equalizing Effects? -- 66. Who Benefits Most from College? -- SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS -- 67. The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process -- 68. Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood -- 69. A New Social Psychological Model of Educational Attainment -- LABOR MARKETS -- 70. The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications -- 71. An Outline of a Theory of the Matching of Persons to Jobs -- 72. The Rise of Precarious Work -- 73. Little Labor: How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape -- SOCIAL CAPITAL, NETWORKS, AND ATTAINMENT -- 74. The Strength of Weak Ties -- 75. Social Networks and Status Attainment -- 76. Structural Holes -- 77. Networks, Race, and Hiring -- 78. When Do Social Networks Increase Inequality? -- PART VII: RACE AND ETHNICITY -- CONSTRUCTING RACIAL CATEGORIES -- 79. Racial Formation in the United States -- 80. The Dynamics of Racial Fluidity and Inequality -- CLASSIC MODES OF INCORPORATION -- 81. A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market -- 82. The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples -- 83. Assimilation Theory for an Era of Unprecedented Diversity -- NEW MODES OF INCORPORATION
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84. The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants -- 85. Why Replenishment Strengthens Racial and Ethnic Boundaries -- DISCRIMINATION -- 86. Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination -- 87. Stereotype Threat and African-American Student Achievement -- 88. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration -- ARE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISTINCTIONS DECLINING IN SIGNIFICANCE? -- 89. The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions -- The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited and Revised -- 90. How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order? -- 91. Are Recent Trends in Intermarriage Consistent with Assimilation Theory? -- PART VIII: GENDER INEQUALITY -- LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION -- 92. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work -- 93. The Opt-Out Revolution -- 94. Opting Out? -- DISCRIMINATION -- 95. Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians -- 96. Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? -- 97. Do Openly Gay Men Experience Employment Discrimination? -- 98. Rethinking Employment Discrimination and Its Remedies -- 99. Discrimination: Conscious or Nonconscious? -- SEX SEGREGATION -- 100. The Structure and Process of Sex Segregation -- 101. Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women's Careers -- 102. Labor Markets as Queues: A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition -- 103. Glass Ceilings in Corporate Law Firms -- 104. Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality -- GENDER GAP IN WAGES -- 105. The Within Gender Wage Gap -- 106. Devaluation and the Pay of Comparable Male and Female Occupations -- 107. Why Do Female Occupations Pay Less? -- 108. The Sources of the Gender Pay Gap -- HOW GENDER INTERSECTS -- 109. Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter
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110. Double Jeopardy -- A STALLING OUT? -- 111. The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled -- 112. The Anti-Feminist Backlash and Recent Trends in Gender Attitudes -- 113. The Persistence of Gender Inequality -- PART IX: THE CONSEQUENCES OF INEQUALITY -- LIFESTYLES -- 114. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste -- 115. The Social Stratification of Theater, Dance, and Cinema Attendance -- 116. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life -- 117. Income Inequality and Income Segregation -- POLITICS AND ATTITUDES -- 118. What's the Matter with Kansas? -- 119. The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting -- HEALTH -- 120. Health Inequalities and the Psychosocial Environment: Two Scientific Challenges -- 121. The Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality -- 122. Why Do Mortality Disparities Persist? -- PART X: THE FUTURE OF INEQUALITY -- INDUSTRIALISM AND POST-INDUSTRIALISM -- 123. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society -- 124. Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies -- 125. The Labor Force and the Great Recession -- POST-SOCIALISM -- 126. Post-Socialist Stratification -- 127. Making Capitalism Without Capitalists -- 128. Elite Opportunity in Transitions from State Socialism -- POST-MODERNITY AND HIGH MODERNITY -- 129. The Evolution of Modern Stratification Systems -- 130. Social Justice and Social Divisions -- GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY -- 131. Globalism's Discontents -- 132. The New Geography of Global Income Inequality -- About the Editors -- Names Index -- Subject Index
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