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Classless Society
Inbunden, 2000
1484 kr
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Are there classes in America? In The Classless Society Paul Kingston forcefully answers no.This book directly challenges a long-standing intellectual tradition of class analysis, recently revitalized by such prominent scholars as Erik Olin Wright and John Goldthorpe. Insisting on a realist …
Classless Society
Häftad, 2000
345 kr
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Are there classes in America? In The Classless Society Paul Kingston forcefully answers no.This book directly challenges a long-standing intellectual tradition of class analysis, recently revitalized by such prominent scholars as Erik Olin Wright and John Goldthorpe. Insisting on a realist …
Reconfigurations of Class and Gender
Av Janeen Baxter, Mark Western
Inbunden, 2002
730 kr
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At a time when social commentators are increasingly likely to assert the "death of class" as a source of social inequality and conflict, this far-reaching volume reasserts the significance of class and gender for understanding socioeconomic conditions. Rather than declining in importance, class and …
Women's Working Lives in East Asia
Inbunden, 2002
1711 kr
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One of the most dramatic economic changes of the past century has been the increase in married women's work outside the home. This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is …
Women's Working Lives in East Asia
Häftad, 2002
419 kr
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One of the most dramatic economic changes of the past century has been the increase in married women's work outside the home. This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is …
On the Edge of Commitment
Educational Attainment and Race in the United States
Inbunden, 2005
780 kr
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The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamental question: Who goes to college and why? In On the Edge of Commitment, Stephen L. Morgan offers a new model of educational achievement to explain …
Poverty and Inequality
Av David B. Grusky, Ravi Kanbur
Inbunden, 2006
1189 kr
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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 …
Poverty and Inequality
Av David B. Grusky, Ravi Kanbur
Häftad, 2006
287 kr
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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 …
Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective
Av Karin Kurz, Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Inbunden, 2004
973 kr
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Although a strong indicator of social status, home ownership has rarely emerged as a topic in social inequality research. This book compares twelve countries—the United States, Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Israel—to …
On Sociology Second Edition Volume One
Critique and Program
Inbunden, 2006
1257 kr
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On Sociology—extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this second edition—addresses the current state of the discipline. Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology, combining the demonstrated strengths of …
On Sociology Second Edition Volume One
Critique and Program
Häftad, 2006
302 kr
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On Sociology—extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this second edition—addresses the current state of the discipline. Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology, combining the demonstrated strengths of …
On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two
Illustration and Retrospect
Inbunden, 2007
1257 kr
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On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two
Illustration and Retrospect
Häftad, 2007
302 kr
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see copy for volume one.
Analyzing Inequality
Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2005
1087 kr
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Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new instruments that make …
After the Fall of the Wall
Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany
Av Martin Diewald, Anne Goedicke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
943 kr
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new …
Mobility and Inequality
Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics
Av Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1808 kr
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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 …
Moral Economy of Class
Class and Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2006
689 kr
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This book surveys whether and how social classes differ in their views on important social issues, such as work and family, the economy and politics, rights and morals, and the distribution of justice. What accounts for such differences in opinion? Are class differences comparable and consistent …
Occupational Ghettos
The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men
Av Maria Charles, David B. Grusky
Häftad, 2005
334 kr
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The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This development, while spectacular, has been coupled with …
Political Sociology of the Welfare State
Institutions, Social Cleavages, and Orientations
Inbunden, 2007
746 kr
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A comparative analysis of the political attitudes, values, aspirations, and identities of citizens in advanced industrial societies, this book focuses on the different ways in which social policies and national politics affect personal opinions on justice, political responsibility, and the overall …
Stratification in Higher Education
A Comparative Study
Av Yossi Shavit, Richard Arum m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1663 kr
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The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, assess the links between …
Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel
Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual
Inbunden, 2008
859 kr
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Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolize scarce resources—good jobs or top educations—for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that racial and ethnic discrimination can also occur to …
Analyzing Inequality
Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2007
259 kr
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Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new instruments that make …
Boundaries and Categories
Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China
Av Feng Wang
Inbunden, 2007
746 kr
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In the last two decades of the twentieth century, following the worldwide collapse of communism, China ascended from being one of the most egalitarian societies in the world to one of the more unequal. Wang Feng documents the process of rising inequality in urban China during this period, and …
Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China
Av Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang
Inbunden, 2008
1371 kr
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The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided …
New Gilded Age
The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time
Av David Grusky, Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Inbunden, 2012
1358 kr
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Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty?Is …
New Gilded Age
The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time
Av David Grusky, Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Häftad, 2012
331 kr
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Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty?Is …
Gendered Trajectories
Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Av Wei-hsin Yu
Inbunden, 2009
802 kr
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Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan, …
Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China
Av Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang
Häftad, 2008
331 kr
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The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided …
Dividing the Domestic
Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective
Av Judith Treas, Sonja Drobnič
Inbunden, 2010
746 kr
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In Dividing the Domestic, leading international scholars roll up their sleeves to investigate how culture and country characteristics permeate our households and our private lives. The book introduces novel frameworks for understanding why the household remains a bastion of traditional gender …
Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China
Av Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang
E-bok, 2008
399 kr
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The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided …
