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0 reviewsISBN-10 : 0429974090
ISBN-13 : 9780429974090
Author: David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelényi
Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.
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
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
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. IntragenerationalEconomic 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
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
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