| Description |
xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The diminishing American dream / Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk -- Why inequality? / Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.] -- The equality dilemma : fair play or fair shares? / William Ryan -- Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Classes / Karl Marx -- Class, status, party / Max Weber -- Capitalism, patriarchy, and job segregation by sex / Heidi Hartmann -- A theory of ethnic antagonism : the split labor market / Edna Bonacich -- The division of labor and occupational stratification / Donald J. Treiman -- Sponsored and contest mobility and the school system / Ralph H. Turner -- Some principles of stratification / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore -- Some principles of stratification : a critical analysis / Melvin M. Tumin -- The uses of undeservingness / Herbert J. Gans -- A general framework for the analysis of class / Erik Olin Wright -- The primary effects of scientific management / Harry Braverman -- Mass production in postmodern times / Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh -- The structure of power in American society / C. Wright Mills -- Sociopolitical pluralism / Marvin E. Olsen -- The American upper class / G. William Domhoff -- Economic self-sufficiency in present-day America / John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy -- Race and the rise of ethnicity / Lillian B. Rubin -- The crisis of the American dream / Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone -- The bureaucratic burden / David M. Gordon -- The politics of generational division / Katherine Newman -- The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The truly disadvantaged / William Julius Wilson -- A sociology of wealth and racial inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro -- A history of multicultural America / Ronald Takaki -- A piece of the pie : occupational trends / Stanley Lieberson -- The continuing causes of segregation / Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton -- Black wealth/white wealth / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro -- The immigrant enclave : theory and empirical examples / Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning -- Job competition between immigrants and African Americans / Paul Ong and Abel Valenzuela, Jr. -- "Night to his day" : the social construction of gender / Judith Lorber -- White privilege and male privilege : a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies / Peggy McIntosh -- The politics of motherhood / Jill Quadagno -- The ceiling and the wall : the double barrier to the top / Ann M. Morrison ... [et al.] -- No man's land : introduction / Kathleen Gerson -- Women, men, and work in the twenty-first century / Barbara F. Reskin and Irene Padavic -- Comparable worth : an overview / Elaine Sorensen -- The vital link : prep schools and higher education / Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell -- The savage inequalities of public education in New York / Jonathan Kozol --Failing at fairness : hidden lessons / Myra Sadker and David Sadker -- Common ground : diver / J. Anthony Lukas. |
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Equality -- United States.
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Equality. |
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United States. |
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Social classes -- United States.
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Social classes. |
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Marginality, Social -- United States.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Minorities. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Shapiro, Thomas M.
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| ISBN |
1559348348 |
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