ISBN:
9780429494468
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 766 Seiten)
Edition:
Second edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The inequality reader
DDC:
305.01
Keywords:
Equality
;
Social stratification
;
Social classes
;
Race
;
Sex role
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Rasse
;
Geschlecht
;
Soziale Schichtung
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Stories About Inequality That We Love to Tell -- Part II Does Inequality Serve a Purpose? -- 2 Some Principles of Stratification -- 3 Inequality by Design -- 4 Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing -- Part III The Structure of Social Inequality -- SOCIAL CLASS -- 5 Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism -- 6 Class Counts -- STATUS -- 7 Class, Status, Party -- 8 Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society? Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship -- INCOME -- 9 Striking It Richer The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States -- 10 Is Market Failure Behind the Takeoff in Inequality? -- Part IV Inequality at the Extremes -- THE RULING CLASS, THE UPPER CLASS, AND ELITES -- 11 The Power Elite -- 12 Who Rules America? Power and Politics -- 13 The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class -- 14 Bobos in Paradise The New Upper Class and How They Got There -- POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS -- The Experience of Poverty -- 15 Nickel-and-Dimed On (not) Getting by in America -- 16 The Missing Class Portraits of the Near Poor in America -- How Much Poverty Is There? -- 17 Poorer by Comparison Poverty, Work, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -- The Sources of Poverty and the Underclass -- 18 Jobless Poverty A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto -- 19 American Apartheid Segregation and the Making of the Underclass -- 20 Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children's Well-Being -- Poverty and Social Policy -- 21 Flat Broke with Children Women in the Age of Welfare Reform -- 22 Incarceration, Unemployment, and Inequality -- 23 Escaping Poverty Can Housing Vouchers Help? -- Part V Racial and Ethnic Inequality -- CONSTRUCTING RACIAL CATEGORIES
Abstract:
24 Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s -- 25 Racial Identities in 2000 The Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option -- MODES OF INCORPORATION -- 26 The New Second Generation Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants -- 27 Black Identities West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities -- DISCRIMINATION, PREJUDICE, AND STEREOTYPING -- 28 Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination -- 29 Marked Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration -- 30 The Continuing Significance of Race Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places -- 31 Stereotype Threat and African-American Student Achievement -- THE FUTURE OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY -- 32 The Declining Significance of Race Blacks and Changing American Institutions -- 33 Black Wealth/White Wealth A New Perspective on Racial Inequality -- 34 The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States -- 35 What Do You Call a Black Man with a Ph.D.? -- Part VI Gender Inequality -- CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES -- 36 The Social Construction of Gender -- LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION -- 37 The Time Bind When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work -- 38 The Opt-Out Revolution -- 39 Getting to Equal Progress, Pitfalls, and Policy Solutions on the Road to Gender Parity in the Workplace -- 40 The Time Divide Work, Family, and Gender Inequality -- DISCRIMINATION -- 41 Orchestrating Impartiality The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians -- 42 Getting a Job Is There a Motherhood Penalty? -- 43 Rethinking Employment Discrimination and Its Remedies -- SEX SEGREGATION -- 44 Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality -- 45 Detours on the Road to Equality Women, Work, and Higher Education -- THE GENDER GAP IN WAGES -- 46 The Within-Job Gender Wage Gap
Abstract:
47 Devaluation and the Pay of Comparable Male and Female Occupations -- 48 The Gender Pay Gap Have Women Gone as Far as They Can? -- GLOBALIZATION AND GENDER -- 49 The Nanny Chain -- Part VII Generating Inequality -- THE EXPERIENCE OF MOBILITY -- 50 No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle -- THE STRUCTURE OF EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY -- 51 Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment Evidence from Eight European Countries -- THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY -- 52 A Refined Model of Occupational Mobility -- 53 Social Mobility in Europe -- 54 It's a Decent Bet That Our Children Will Be Professors Too -- 55 Like Watching Grass Grow? Assessing Changes in U.S. Intragenerational Economic Mobility over the Past Two Decades -- STATUS AND INCOME ATTAINMENT -- Basic Models -- 56 The Process of Stratification -- 57 Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961-1999 -- Social Psychological Models -- 58 The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process -- 59 Ain't No Makin' It Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood -- Sibling Models -- 60 The Pecking Order Which Siblings Succeed and Why -- SOCIAL CAPITAL, NETWORKS, AND ATTAINMENT -- 61 The Strength of Weak Ties -- 62 Social Networks and Status Attainment -- 63 Structural Holes -- 64 Networks, Race, and Hiring -- Part VIII The Consequences of Inequality -- 65 Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer -- 66 Health, Income, and Inequality -- 67 The Social Stratification of Theatre, Dance, and Cinema Attendance -- 68 Unequal Childhoods Class, Race, and Family Life -- 69 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality -- Part IX Globalization and Inequality -- 70 Globalism's Discontents -- 71 The New Geography of Global Income Inequality -- Part X What Is To Be Done? -- ECONOMIC STIMULUS AND JOBS -- 72 Little Labor How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape
Abstract:
73 Crisis No More The Success of Obama's Stimulus Program -- EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION -- 74 Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children -- NEIGHBORHOODS AND POVERTY -- 75 The Harlem Miracle -- EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- 76 Flexicurity -- WEALTH AND SAVINGS -- 77 A Golden Parachute for Everyone? -- TAXES AND REDISTRIBUTION -- 78 The Pragmatic Case for Reducing Income Inequality -- EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION -- 79 Tackling the Managerial Power Problem The Key to Improving Executive Compensation -- A CAUTIONARY NOTE -- 80 Poverty and Marriage, Income Inequality and Brains -- About the Editors -- About the Book -- Index
DOI:
10.4324/9780429494468
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