Social Inequality : Patterns and Processes
ISBN: 9780073528151 | 0073528153
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 2/26/2007
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This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing primarily on social class, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they overlap and interrelate.
| Preface | |
| An Introduction to the Study of Social Inequality | |
| Theories of Class and Social Inequality | |
| The American Class System | |
| The Upper Class and the Power Elite | |
| The Middle Classes | |
| Poverty and the Poor | |
| Stratification Systems and Social Mobility | |
| Ideology and the Legitimation of Inequality | |
| Public Policy ... MORE | |
| Racial/Ethnic Differentiation | |
| Racial/Ethnic Stratification | |
| Gender Inequality | |
| Political Inequality | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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