ABSTRACT

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

ByDavid B. Grusky, Katherine R. Weisshaar

part 1|16 pages

The Functions and Dysfunctions of Inequality

part 2|81 pages

Inequality in Comparative Perspective

part |15 pages

Cross-Societal Differences

part |65 pages

Trends in Economic Inequality

chapter 10|5 pages

Why Is Income Inequality Growing?

ByRobert Frank

chapter 11|13 pages

Winner-Take-All Politics

Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States
ByJacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

part 3|149 pages

The Structure of Inequality

part |38 pages

Marxian Theories of Class

part |52 pages

Weberian Theories of Class

chapter 18|10 pages

Class, Status, Party

ByMax Weber

chapter |4 pages

Status Groups and Classes

ByMax Weber

chapter |4 pages

Open and Closed Relationships

ByMax Weber

chapter 20|9 pages

Marxism and Class Theory

A Bourgeois Critique
ByFrank Parkin

chapter 21|15 pages

Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?

Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship
ByTak Wing Chan, John H. Goldthorpe

part |16 pages

Durkheimian Theories of Class

part |23 pages

The New Gradationalism?

part 4|53 pages

The Ruling Class, Elites, and the Upper Class

part |21 pages

Classic Statements

chapter 30|7 pages

The Ruling Class

ByGaetano Mosca

chapter 31|11 pages

The Power Elite

ByC. Wright Mills

chapter 32|5 pages

Elites and Power

ByAnthony Giddens

part |31 pages

Contemporary Statements

chapter 33|6 pages

Who Rules America?

ByG. William Domhoff

chapter 35|6 pages

Bobos in Paradise

The New Upper Class and How They Got There
ByDavid Brooks

chapter 37|6 pages

China’s Evolving Oligarchy

ByAndrew G. Walder

part 5|112 pages

Poverty and the Underclass

part |17 pages

The Experience of Poverty

part |18 pages

Poverty and the Economy

part |11 pages

The Effects of Politics and Institutions

chapter 43|7 pages

Taxing the Poor

How Some States Make Poverty Worse
ByKatherine S. Newman, Rourke L. O’Brien

part |36 pages

Neighborhoods and Segregation

chapter 44|10 pages

American Apartheid

Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
ByDouglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

chapter 45|9 pages

Legacies of Inequality

ByRobert Sampson

part |10 pages

Incarceration and Poverty

part VI|188 pages

Who Gets Ahead?

part |53 pages

Class Mobility

part |10 pages

Income Mobility

part |18 pages

Classic Models of Status Attainment

chapter 59|7 pages

Inequality

A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America
ByChristopher Jencks, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert Gintis, Barbara Heyns, Stephan Michelson

chapter 68|14 pages

Ain’t No Makin’ It

Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood
ByJay MacLeod

part |24 pages

Labor Markets

chapter 70|12 pages

The Dual Labor Market

Theory and Implications
ByMichael J. Piore

chapter 72|6 pages

The Rise of Precarious Work

ByArne L. Kalleberg

chapter 73|8 pages

Little Labor

How Union Decline Is Changing the American Landscape
ByJake Rosenfeld

part |28 pages

Social Capital, Networks, And Attainment

part 7|119 pages

Race and Ethnicity

part |14 pages

Constructing Racial Categories

part |33 pages

Classic Modes Of Incorporation

chapter 81|14 pages

A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism

The Split Labor Market
ByEdna Bonacich

chapter 82|12 pages

The Immigrant Enclave

Theory and Empirical Examples
ByAlejandro Portes, Robert D. Manning

part |18 pages

New Modes of Incorporation

chapter 84|11 pages

The New Second Generation

Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants
ByAlejandro Portes, Min Zhou

part |18 pages

Discrimination

chapter 86|5 pages

Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?

A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
ByMarianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan

chapter 88|8 pages

Marked

Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
ByDevah Pager

part |35 pages

Are Racial and Ethnic Distinctions Declining in Significance?

part 8|350 pages

Gender Inequality

part |17 pages

Labor Force Participation

chapter 92|5 pages

The Time Bind

When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
ByArlie Russell Hochschild

chapter 93|5 pages

The Opt-Out Revolution

ByLisa Belkin

chapter 94|9 pages

Opting Out?

ByChristine Percheski

part |45 pages

Discrimination

chapter 95|11 pages

Orchestrating Impartiality

The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians
ByClaudia Goldin, Cecilia Rouse

chapter 96|12 pages

Getting a Job

Is There a Motherhood Penalty?
ByShelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, In Paik

chapter 99|7 pages

Discrimination

Conscious or Nonconscious?
ByTrond Petersen

part |116 pages

Sex Segregation

chapter 101|5 pages

Revolving Doors

Sex Segregation and Women’s Careers
ByJerry A. Jacobs

chapter 102|10 pages

Labor Markets as Queues

A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition
ByBarbara F. Reskin

part |30 pages

Gender Gap in Wages

part |13 pages

How Gender Intersects

part |26 pages

A Stalling Out?

part 9|83 pages

The Consequences of Inequality

part |53 pages

Lifestyles

chapter 114|22 pages

Distinction

A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
ByPierre Bourdieu

chapter 116|10 pages

Unequal Childhoods

Class, Race, and Family Life
ByAnnette Lareau

part |11 pages

Politics and Attitudes

part X|86 pages

The Future of Inequality

part |85 pages

Industrialism and Post-Industrialism

chapter 123|12 pages

The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

ByDaniel Bell

part |53 pages

Post-Socialism

chapter 126|6 pages

Post-Socialist Stratification

ByVictor Nee

part |16 pages

Post-Modernity and High Modernity

part |19 pages

Globalization and Inequality

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