Presenting extracts from Grusky's classic "Social Stratification", this book provides an introduction to major concepts and processes of inequality.
This book redirects the focus of public debate to issues of gender and racial segregation and suggests that they should be fundamental to thinking about the status of black Americans and the origins of the urban underclass.
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.
Grusky, David B. 2005. “Foundations of a NeoDurkheimian Class Analysis.” In Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright, 51–81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Grusky, David B., Yoshimichi Sato, Jan O. Jonsson, ...
This book assembles classic and contemporary articles representing the major sociological approaches to understanding social inequality.
This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these ...
The resulting collection of articles both celebrates the diversity of theoretical approaches and reveals the cumulative nature of ongoing research.This comprehensive reader is designed as a primary text for introductory courses on social ...
Bringing together the classic statements on social stratification, this collection offers the most significant contributions to ongoing debates on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality.
Updated to reflect the most current research and recent societal events, the readings in the 10th edition are especially timely, covering immigration and refugees, myths about immigrant crime, growing inequality, the role of social media in ...
Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape
Rose, D., & Pevalin, D.J. (Eds.). (2003). A researcher's guide to the National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification. London: Sage. Skelton, A., Bridgwood, A., Duckworth, K., Hutton, L., Fenn, C., Creaser, C., & Babbidge, A. (2002).