Inequality : classic readings in race, class, and gender /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2006.
Description:xviii, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5883307
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Other authors / contributors:Grusky, David B.
Szelényi, Szonja, 1960-
ISBN:9780813343303 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813343305
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Is Inequality Inevitable?
  • 1. Some Principles of Stratification
  • 2. Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis
  • The Structure of Social Inequality
  • 3. Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism
  • 4. Class, Status, Party
  • 5. The Division of Labor in Society
  • 6. Equality and Inequality in Modern Society or Social Stratification Revisited
  • Inequality at the Extremes
  • 7. The Power Elite
  • 8. Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto
  • 9. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
  • Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequality
  • 10. A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market
  • 11. The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
  • 12. The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples
  • 13. The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union
  • 14. Labor Markets as Queues: A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition
  • Generating Inequality
  • 15. Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System
  • 16. The Process of Stratification
  • 17. The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process
  • 18. Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction
  • The Consequences of Inequality
  • 19. The Theory of the Leisure Class
  • 20. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
  • Index