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Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for undergraduate inequality courses. Respected editors David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi have assembled the most relevant classic and contemporary readings, providing balanced coverage of inequality’s past and present. The carefully selected essays are methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary in nature and cover the important course topics such as poverty, discrimination, and gender. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides expanded focus on policy issues, allowing students to learn about the possibilities for improving inequality, as well as additional qualitative readings that make the scholarship more accessible and relatable. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, featuring the most important qualitative and quantitative scholarship in the field.
About the Authors
David B. Grusky is professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His books include Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective; Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics; and Poverty and Inequality.
Szonja Szelényi has taught at Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin, and Cornell University. She is the author of Equality by Design.
"Timely, comprehensive, illuminating, The Inequality Reader offers the best over-view I know of thinking on the topic. It opens the undergraduate – and general intelligent reader’s – eye to the basic questions: How are we unequal? Why? What leads us to care or not? Where will current trends lead us and what is to be done? Enthusiastically recommended." —Arlie Hochschild, author of The Commercialization of Intimate Life
"The Inequality Reader is a remarkably rich and diverse collection, suitable for undergraduates encountering sociological analysis for the first time as well as graduate students looking for a comprehensive overview of the main strands of sociological thinking and research on inequality." —Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison, and President-elect, American Sociological Association
"Grusky and Szelenyi’s The Inequality Reader continues to set the standard for comprehensiveness and timeliness as a resource for students of social stratification. It offers students and faculty alike one-stop shopping for seminal thinking and research on inequality." —Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
"Inequality is the central motivating concern of sociology, and there is no better guide to the stratification canon than The Inequality Reader. In this second edition, Grusky and Szelenyi take us on a occasionally challenging, sometimes humorous, often provocative and always engaging tour of the major works on social stratification that should be read by any sociologist (or other curious soul) interested in how we arrive at our various stations in life." —Dalton Conley, Professor of Sociology, Medicine, and Public Policy, New York University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction
1. David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi
The Stories About Inequality that We Love to Tell
Part II Does Inequality Serve a Purpose?
2. Kingsley Davis & Wilbert E. Moore
Some Principles of Stratification
3. Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, & Kim Voss
Inequality by Design
4. Alan B. Krueger
Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing
Part III The Structure of Social Inequality
Social Class
5. Karl Marx
Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism
6. Erik Olin Wright
Class Counts
Status
7. Max Weber
Class, Status, Party
8. Tak Wing Chan & John H. Goldthorpe
Is There a Status Order?
Income
9. Emmanuel Saez
Striking it Richer
10. David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden
Is Market Failure Behind the Takeoff in Inequality?
Part IV Inequality at the Extremes
The Ruling Class, the Upper Class, and Elites
11. C. Wright Mills
The Power Elite
12. G. William Domhoff
Who Rules America?
13. Alvin W. Gouldner
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
14. David Brooks
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
Poverty and the Underclass
The Experience of Poverty
15. Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed
16. Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen
The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
How Much Poverty Is There?
17. Timothy M. Smeeding
Poorer by Comparison
The Sources of Poverty and the Underclass
18. William Julius Wilson
Jobless Poverty
19. Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
20. Anne R. Pebley and Narayan Sastry
Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children’s Well-Being
Poverty and Social Policy
21. Sharon Hays
Flat Broke with Children
22. Bruce Western
Incarceration, Unemployment, and Inequality
23. Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum
Escaping Poverty: Can Housing Vouchers Help?
Part V Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Constructing Racial Categories
24. Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Racial Formation in the United States
25. Reynolds Farley
Racial Identities: The Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option
Modes of Incorporation
26. Alejandro Portes & Min Zhou
The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants
27. Mary C. Waters
Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
Discrimination, Prejudice, and Stereotyping
28. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
29. Devah Pager
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
30. Joe R. Feagin
The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places
31. Claude Steele
Stereotype Threat and African-American Student Achievement
The Future of Racial and Ethnic Inequality
32. William Julius Wilson
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
33. Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro
Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
34. Herbert J. Gans
The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-first-century United States
35. Larry Bobo
What Do You Call a Black Man with a Ph.D.?
Part VI Gender Inequality
Constructing Categories
36. Judith Lorber
The Social Construction of Gender
Labor Force Participation
37. Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Time Bind
38. Lisa Belkin
The Opt-Out Revolution
39. Pamela Stone
Getting to Equal: Progress, Pitfalls, and Policy Solutions on the Road to Gender Parity in the Workplace
40. Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality
Discrimination
41. Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians
42. Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, & In Paik
Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?
43. Barbara F. Reskin
Rethinking Employment Discrimination and its Remedies
Sex Segregation
44. Maria Charles and David B. Grusky
Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality
45. Jerry A. Jacobs
Detours on the Road to Equality: Women, Work, and Higher Education
The Gender Gap in Wages
46. Trond Petersen & Laurie A. Morgan
The Within-Job Gender Wage Gap
47. Paula England
Devaluation and the Pay of Comparable Male and Female Occupations
48. Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn
The Gender Pay Gap: Have Women Gone as Far as They Can?
Globalization and Gender
49. Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Nanny Chain
Part VII Generating Inequality
The Experience of Mobility
50. Timothy Egan
No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle
The Structure of Educational Mobility
51. Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller, & Reinhard Pollak
Inequality in Educational Attainment
The Structure of Social and Economic Mobility
52. David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser
A Refined Model of Occupational Mobility
53. Richard Breen
Social Mobility in Europe
54. Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, and Reinhard Pollak
It’s a Decent Bet that our Children Will be Professors Too
55. Gregory Acs and Seth Zimmerman
Like Watching Grass Grow? Assessing Changes in U.S. Economic Mobility
Status and Income Attainment
Basic Models
56. Peter M. Blau & Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree
The Process of Stratification
57. David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer
Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961-1999
Social Psychological Models
58. William H. Sewell, Archibald O. Haller, & Alejandro Portes
The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process
59. Jay MacLeod
Ain’t No Makin’ It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-income Neighborhood
Sibling Models
60. Dalton Conley
The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why
Social Capital, Networks, and Attainment
61. Mark S. Granovetter
The Strength of Weak Ties
62. Nan Lin
Social Networks and Status Attainment
63. Ronald S. Burt
Structural Holes
64. Roberto M. Fernandez and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
Networks, Race, and Hiring
Part VIII The Consequences of Inequality
65. Janny Scott
Life at the Top in America Isn’t Just Better, It’s Longer
66. John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert, and Barbara Wolfe
Health, Income, and Inequality
67. Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe
The Social Stratification of Theater, Dance, and Cinema Attendance
68. Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
69. Eszter Hargittai
The Digital Reproduction of Inequality
Part IX Globalization and Inequality
70. Joseph E. Stiglitz
Globalism’s Discontents
71. Glenn Firebaugh
The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
72. Jake Rosenfeld
Little Labor
Part X What is to be Done?
Economic Stimulus and Jobs
73. Gary Burtless
Crisis No More
Early Childhood Education
74. James J. Heckman
Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
Neighborhoods and Poverty
75. David Brooks
The Harlem Miracle
Employment and Unemployment
76. Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel
Flexicurity
Wealth and Savings
77. Dalton Conley
A Golden Parachute for Everyone?
Taxes and Redistribution
78. Robert Frank
The Pragmatic Case for Reducing Income Inequality
CEO Compensation
79. Lucien Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Tackling the Managerial Power Problem
A Cautionary Note
80. Charles Murray
Poverty and Marriage, Income Inequality, and Brains
About the Editors
About the Book
Index
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