Temkin begins his illuminating examination with a simple question: when is one situation worse than another regarding inequality? In exploring this question, a new approach to understanding inequality emerges.
For the first time, these twenty calssic texts have no been brought together in a new reader, Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Edited by David B. Grusky and Sonja Szel?i, this important new volume provides:?
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.
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.
Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender David Grusky. and socialise them from within. This is why, when the state constitutes the sole environment in which men can fit themselves for the business of living in common, they inevitably ...
Inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient, which is a single-number summary index of inequality ranging from 0 to 100 per cent, popularised by the Italian statistician Corrado Gini.21 Implicit in using such an index are ...
The name comes from its authors, Charles Cobb and Paul Douglas. This contribution was originally presented by Paul H. Douglas in 1927 at the American Economic Association Conference and published the following year by Douglas and ...
Features include: • The text is divided into basic concepts (theoretical and methodological) and applications (e.g., to class, poverty, mobility, education, gender, race). • Each chapter includes a list of key concepts, questions for ...
When he and his contemporaries made their comments on the status of the elite, local elites had largely been replaced by a national elite that crossed the boundaries of the three arenas (Wolfe 2000). At the same time, ignorance and ...
Sewell, William H., Jr. 1992. “A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation.” American Journal of Sociology 98: 1–29. Sewell, William H., and Robert M. Hauser. 1980. “The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study of Social and ...
How genomics reveals deep histories of inequality, going back many thousands of years. Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences.
In Types of Economic Theory I. New York : Augustus M. Kelley , 171-234 . Osberg . Lars . 1984. ... The Nature and Significance of Economic Science . 2d ed . ... Essays in Social Value Theory : A Neoinstitutionalist Contribution .
This book offers an up-to-date portrait of the realities of social class and its consequences in the United States today, focusing on the increasing inequality gap; the shrinking middle class; the myth and realities of social mobility; the ...
A New Zealand Crisis Max Rashbrooke. tions exposed to household crowding (one or ... Overall, overcrowding increases the spread of close-contact infectious diseases, which are passed from person to person. Respiratory infections such as ...
A collection of essays that offer opposing viewpoints on the role of equality in contemporary social issues, discussing such topics as poverty, racism, and criminal justice.
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades.
A worsening economic crisis due to the shift in wealth over the past decade is the central concern of this carefully documented study. It profiles the current status of income...
This book presents an account of economic inequality from a contemporary classical liberal perspective.