The Blackwell companion to social inequalities /

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Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Description:xiv, 612 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Blackwell companions to sociology
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5753100
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Other authors / contributors:Romero, Mary.
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
ISBN:9780631231547 (hard cover : alk. paper)
0631231544 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I. Conceptualizing Inequalities
  • 1. Historical Perspectives on Inequality:
  • 2. Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization?:
  • 3. Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition:
  • 4. Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World:
  • 5. Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity:
  • Part II. Epistemology, Method, and Inequality
  • 6. Critical Race Theory in Sociology:
  • 7. Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World:
  • 8. Labor Market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class:
  • 9. What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness:
  • Part III. Family, Community, and Education
  • 10. Children and Inequality: Julia Wrigley: Graduate Center
  • 11. Parenting and Inequality:
  • 12. Migrant Networks: A Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration
  • 13. Race, Education, and Inequality:
  • Part IV. Policy Responses to Inequalities
  • 14. Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality:
  • 15. Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship
  • 16. Disability and Social Inequalities:
  • 17. Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare:
  • 18. The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa:
  • 19. Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, PopulationPolitics, and NGOs:
  • Part V. Media, Technology, and Inequalities
  • 20. Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes:
  • 21. In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization:
  • 22. Minding the Cyber-Gap, The Internet and Social Inequality:
  • 23. New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality:
  • Index