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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.
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.
The essays included in this volume honor a truly gifted teacher and
sociologist, John C. Pock. After a brief stint at the University of
Illinois, Pock moved in 1955 to Reed College, a highly regarded but
very small liberal arts institution (roughly 1,000 students)
located in Portland, Oregon. Pock has spent the rest of his career
(to date) there. During his forty-year tenure at Reed College, the
sociology department usually had only two faculty members. Even so,
during this period as many as 104 students graduated with majors in
sociology and 69 established professional careers as sociologists.
(A listing, which is assuredly incomplete, of Reed students during
Pock's tenure who went on to professional careers in sociology is
presented in an appendix to this volume.) Many of these
sociologists have been extremely successful and influential within
the discipline. Reed sociologists have taught or are teaching at
the University of California at Berkeley, the University of
Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, Stanford,
UCLA, Wisconsin, and other leading U.S. academic departments.
Others have been employed as researchers in such prominent
institutions within and outside the United States as RAND, the
National Academy of Sciences, the National Opinion Research Center,
the East-West Center, the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the Sloan Foundation, and the Australian National
University.
This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx,
Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal
some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have
proven very adaptive and can flourish even today in the 21st
century.
How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then
pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the
children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers
upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and
income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30
years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed?
In this volume, leading sociologists and economists present
original findings and conceptual arguments in response to questions
like these. After assessing the range of mobility patterns observed
in recent decades, the volume considers the mechanisms that
generate mobility, focusing on both the training and skills that
are rewarded in the labor market as well as the role of educational
institutions in certifying graduates for professional positions.
The volume concludes with chapters that assess the contexts of
social mobility, examining the impact of macroeconomic conditions
and societal levels of inequality on social and economic mobility.
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.
This volume brings together leading public intellectuals-Amartya
Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, Francois Bourguignon, William J. Wilson,
Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman-to take stock of current
analytic understandings of poverty and inequality. Contemporary
research on inequality has largely relied on conceptual advances
several decades old, even though the basic structure of global
inequality is changing in fundamental ways. The reliance on
conventional poverty indices, rights-based approaches to poverty
reduction, and traditional modeling of social mobility has left
scholars and policymakers poorly equipped to address modern
challenges. The contributors show how contemporary poverty is
forged in neighborhoods, argue that discrimination in housing
markets is a profound source of poverty, suggest that gender
inequalities in the family and in the social evaluation of the
caretaking role remain a hidden dimension of inequality, and
develop the argument that contemporary inequality is best
understood as an inequality in fundamental human capabilities. This
book demonstrates in manifold ways how contemporary scholarship and
policy must be recast to make sense of new and emerging forms of
poverty and social exclusion.
This volume brings together leading public intellectuals—Amartya
Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson,
Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman—to take stock of current
analytic understandings of poverty and inequality. Contemporary
research on inequality has largely relied on conceptual advances
several decades old, even though the basic structure of global
inequality is changing in fundamental ways. The reliance on
conventional poverty indices, rights-based approaches to poverty
reduction, and traditional modeling of social mobility has left
scholars and policymakers poorly equipped to address modern
challenges. The contributors show how contemporary poverty is
forged in neighborhoods, argue that discrimination in housing
markets is a profound source of poverty, suggest that gender
inequalities in the family and in the social evaluation of the
caretaking role remain a hidden dimension of inequality, and
develop the argument that contemporary inequality is best
understood as an inequality in fundamental human capabilities. This
book demonstrates in manifold ways how contemporary scholarship and
policy must be recast to make sense of new and emerging forms of
poverty and social exclusion.
The essays included in this volume honor a truly gifted teacher and
sociologist, John C. Pock. After a brief stint at the University of
Illinois, Pock moved in 1955 to Reed College, a highly regarded but
very small liberal arts institution (roughly 1,000 students)
located in Portland, Oregon. Pock has spent the rest of his career
(to date) there. During his forty-year tenure at Reed College, the
sociology department usually had only two faculty members. Even so,
during this period as many as 104 students graduated with majors in
sociology and 69 established professional careers as sociologists.
(A listing, which is assuredly incomplete, of Reed students during
Pock's tenure who went on to professional careers in sociology is
presented in an appendix to this volume.) Many of these
sociologists have been extremely successful and influential within
the discipline. Reed sociologists have taught or are teaching at
the University of California at Berkeley, the University of
Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, Stanford,
UCLA, Wisconsin, and other leading U.S. academic departments.
Others have been employed as researchers in such prominent
institutions within and outside the United States as RAND, the
National Academy of Sciences, the National Opinion Research Center,
the East-West Center, the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the Sloan Foundation, and the Australian National
University.
This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx,
Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal
some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have
proven very adaptive and can flourish even today in the 21st
century.
With income inequality on the rise and the ongoing economic
downturn, the causes, consequences, and politics of inequality are
undergoing a fundamental transformation. This book examines the
trends in economic inequality, including social construction of
racial categories, new immigrant economy, and the uneven and
stalled gender revolution.
How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then
pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the
children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers
upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and
income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30
years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed? In
this volume, leading sociologists and economists present original
findings and conceptual arguments in response to questions like
these. After assessing the range of mobility patterns observed in
recent decades, the volume considers the mechanisms that generate
mobility, focusing on both the training and skills that are
rewarded in the labor market as well as the role of educational
institutions in certifying graduates for professional positions.
The volume concludes with chapters that assess the contexts of
social mobility, examining the impact of macroeconomic conditions
and societal levels of inequality on social and economic mobility.
"Twenty-first century women work in offices, shops, and even
factories at rates almost as high as men's. Yet most women are
still under men when it comes to pay, authority, and autonomy.
Charles and Grusky document the tenacity of gender inequality and
the crucial role that occupational segregation plays in
perpetuating it."2;Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology, University
of California, Berkeley
0;With great technical proficiency, Charles and Grusky lay bare the
patterns of occupational segregation shared by all affluent
economies: women are over-represented in nonmanual (and men in
manual) jobs but in both sectors men still hold better jobs.
Everyone who theorizes about gender and class should study these
authors' insights.1;2;Paula England, Stanford University
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