ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|14 pages
Introduction
part 2|19 pages
Does Inequality Serve a Purpose?
part 3|63 pages
The Structure of Social Inequality
chapter 8|18 pages
Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?
part 4|121 pages
Inequality at the Extremes
part 5|96 pages
Racial and Ethnic Inequality
chapter 28|6 pages
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?
part 6|133 pages
Gender Inequality
chapter 39|8 pages
Getting to Equal
part 7|161 pages
Generating Inequality
chapter 51|14 pages
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment
chapter 55|10 pages
Like Watching Grass Grow?
chapter 56|14 pages
The Process of Stratification
part 8|58 pages
The Consequences of Inequality
part 9|24 pages
Globalization and Inequality
part 10|52 pages
What Is To Be Done?