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Social Stratification

by: Rossides, Daniel W.

Social Stratification

by: Rossides, Daniel W.

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/01/1996
Publisher: Pearson College Div

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Summary

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social stratification using both Marxian and liberal perspectives.TheSecond Editionhas been updated and rewritten throughout to reflect the latest information available and make effective learning even more accessible than before.

Preface

PART ONE Sociology and the Study of Social Stratification

An Introduction to Stratification Analysis

(20)

The Argument That Inequality Comes from Human Nature

(4)

The Argument That Inequality is a Social Phenomenon

(5)

A Working Definition of Social Stratification

(5)

Age and Gender Inequality

(1)

Racial-Ethnic Inequality

(1)

Inequality and the Handicapped

(1)

Inequality and Sexual Orientation

(1)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(2)

Stratification Through History

(17)

Social Inequality and Type of Society

(1)

Hunting and Gathering Society

(1)

Complex Horticultural Society

(1)

Complex Agrarian Society

(9)

Inequality in the Modern World: Capitalist Society

(3)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(3)

Stratification Among Societies

(20)

Intersocietal Stratification: Empire and World-Market Systems

(1)

Agrarian Expansionism: The Imperialism of Empire

(1)

The New Imperialism: The Capitalist World-Market System

(2)

Societies in the Contemporary World: Developed, Developing, Underdeveloped

(2)

Underdevelopment: El Salvador

(3)

Developing Society: The Republic of South Korea

(6)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(3)

Theories of Social Stratification

(18)

Evalutionary Marxism

(3)

Evolutionary Liberalism

(10)

Summary

(2)

Notes

(2)

Creative Advances in Stratification Analysis: Functions and Conflict Perspectives

(24)

Historical Background

(4)

The Liberal-Functional Focus on Occupations

(6)

Broadening the Liberal-Functional Focus: The Conflict Outlook on Class Variables

(10)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(3)

PART TWO The American Class System

Economic Classes, I: The American Occupational Hierarchy

100

(29)

Defining and Classifying Occupations: Using Interpretive Science

101

(2)

The Apex of Corporate Capitalism: Owners, Executives, and Officials

103

(4)

Elite Power to Produce Scarce, Overpriced Labor at the Top and Abundant, Cheap Labor at the Bottom

107

(2)

Centralized Labor Control Under Corporate, World-Market Capitalism

109

(3)

The New Economy and Its Ideology

112

(1)

Our Overrated Professions

113

(8)

Stratification Within and Among Professions

121

(1)

Summary

122

(2)

Notes

124

(5)

Economic Classes, II: The Interplay of Wealth, Income, Poverty, Education, and Occupational Power

129

(25)

The Distribution of Wealth

130

(1)

Sources of Wealth

131

(4)

The Distribution of Income

135

(1)

Income Distribution in the United States

136

(1)

The End of a Growing Standard of Living?

137

(2)

Power over Income

139

(1)

New Income Trends: A Bipolar America?

140

(1)

Is the Middle Class Disappearing?

141

(2)

Structural Poverty: The Other Side of the Coin of Affluence

143

(2)

The Politics of Poverty

145

(2)

Changing the Poverty Index to Aid Public Policy

147

(1)

Economic Classes and the Distribution of Formal Education

147

(2)

Declining Mobility, Bipolarization, and Stagnant Living Standards: The Advent of Structural Change?

149

(1)

Summary

149

(2)

Notes

151

(3)

Class, Marriage, Family, Personality, and Physical and Mental Health

154

(22)

Class, Marriage, and Family

155

(10)

Class and Differentials in Health, Life Expectancy, and Mental Disability

165

(5)

Summary

170

(1)

Notes

171

(5)

Class and Education

176

(33)

America's Faith in Education: The Liberal-Functional Consensus

176

(1)

The Conflict Position on Education

177

(5)

Life in Classrooms: The Hidden Curriculum

182

(2)

Tracking and Class Reproduction

184

(1)

Tracking and Elite Private Schools

185

(1)

Higher Education: The Capstone of Class Education

185

(3)

The Cooling-Out Function of Education

188

(2)

Small and Different Worlds: The Academic Profession

190

(1)

Education's Failure to Perform Social Functions

191

(6)

The Right Kind of Education

197

(6)

Summary

203

(1)

Notes

204

(5)

The Legitimation of Class Inequality: America's Hegemonic Culture

209

(42)

The Concept of Legitimation

210

(1)

The Concept of Hegemonic Culture

211

(1)

Legitimating the Liberal Universe

211

(12)

Legitimation and Ritual Elections

223

(2)

Legitimation Through Journalism

225

(4)

The Commercialization of Culture

229

(3)

Legitimation and Public Interest Groups

232

(1)

Legitimation Through Mass Media Entertainment and Sports

233

(10)

Disputed Sectors of Legitimacy

243

(1)

Summary

244

(2)

Notes

246

(5)

The Prestige Dimension: How Americans Regard Themselves

251

(24)

The Realm of Evaluation

252

(2)

Achieved and Ascribed Prestige

254

(1)

Moral (or Prestige) Equality

255

(1)

The New ``Free'' Time (Leisure)

256

(2)

The Primacy of Class

258

(1)

Class and How Americans Regard Themselves

259

(1)

The Hierarchy of Occupational Prestige

259

(2)

Occupational Structure and the Lack of Prestige

261

(4)

Class Self-Identification

265

(1)

The Culture Hero as an Index to Prestige

266

(2)

Class, Personality, and Worldview

268

(1)

Class and Class Consciousness

269

(2)

Summary

271

(1)

Notes

272

(3)

Class and Style of Life: Consumption

275

(20)

Honorific Possessions, Consumption, and Activities

276

(1)

Nonutilitarian Behavior in Industrial Society

277

(2)

Differential Consumption: Industrial Potlatching

279

(6)

Common Consumption

285

(3)

Class, Consumption, and the Legitimation of Inequality

288

(1)

Counterfeit and Compensatory Consumption

289

(1)

Consumption Extremes

290

(1)

Trickle-Down Ideology: The Conservative Attempt to Revitalize America

291

(1)

Summary

292

(1)

Notes

292

(3)

Class and How Americans Associate: The Structure of Prestige Groups

295

(17)

Primary and Secondary Prestige Groups: The Voluntary Sector

295

(2)

Prestige, Diversity, and Struggle

297

(1)

The Upper Class as a Prestige Group

298

(3)

Class and Primary Behavior

301

(1)

Class and Secondary Behavior

302

(4)

Summary

306

(4)

Notes

310

(2)

The Dimension of Power: Class, Political Participation, and Access to State Power

312

(27)

Political-Legal (Power) Stratification in Theory: The Alleged Separation of State and Society

313

(1)

Late Liberal (Corporate Capitalist) Society: Same Basic Trends

314

(3)

America's Unique Class Politics

317

(3)

The Segregation of Classes by Political Jurisdiction

320

(1)

Class and Political Representation

320

(2)

Class and Political Careers

322

(1)

Political Parties and Interest Groups

323

(2)

Class, Voting, and Other Forms of Political Participation

325

(3)

Why Does the United States Have Such Low Political Participation?

328

(6)

Summary

334

(1)

Notes

335

(4)

Class, Legislation, and Government

339

(20)

Class and Taxation

339

(1)

Class and Publication Subsidies (Welfare) for Property and Professional Groups

340

(1)

Class and Public Subsidies (Welfare) for the Poor and Elderly

341

(2)

Class and Housing

343

(2)

Class and Education

345

(3)

Class and Economic Policies of the Federal Government

348

(3)

Class and Foreign Policy

351

(2)

Class and Cultural Imperialism: Education, Churches, Foundations, and Mass and Elite Media

353

(2)

Summary

355

(1)

Notes

356

(3)

Class, Law, and Deviance

359

(32)

The American Legal System

360

(1)

The Liberal-Functional View of Law

360

(1)

The Conflict View of Law

361

(2)

Middle-Class Values and Deviance

363

(3)

White-Collar Crime: Businesspeople

366

(2)

White-Collar Deviance: The Professions

368

(4)

Collusion Among the Powerful and Near-Powerful

372

(5)

The Class Nature of Law Enforcement

377

(1)

The Class Nature of Legal Services and the Administration of Justice

378

(4)

The Obsolete Disputes About the Causes of Crime

382

(1)

Comparative Crime Rates: The United States a World Leader in Crime

383

(1)

The Obsolete Disputes About Controlling Blue-Collar Crime

384

(1)

Summary

385

(1)

Notes

386

(5)

PART THREE American Inequalities by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

The Class Position of America's Racial Minorities: African Americans

391

(38)

Ethnicity and Race in Comparative Perspective

392

(1)

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the United States

393

(1)

Ethnic and Racial Demographics

394

(1)

Majority Males versus All Others

394

(1)

African Americans

395

(21)

Popular Culture and Race

416

(3)

The Declining Significance of Race?

419

(1)

African-American Social Theory

420

(4)

Summary

424

(1)

Notes

425

(4)

The Class Position of America's Hispanic Minorities: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Americans

429

(16)

Mexican Americans

430

(8)

Puerto Rican Americans

438

(2)

Cuban Americans

440

(1)

Hispanic-American Attitudes: More American Than Hispanic

441

(1)

Summary

442

(1)

Notes

442

(3)

Gender Inequality: The Interplay of Class, Gender, and Race

445

(35)

Comparative Gender Relations

446

(1)

Conceptualizing Women as a Minority

446

(1)

Majority Women, Minority Women

447

(1)

Feminist Theory

447

(8)

The Economic Participation of American Women

455

(5)

Women and Education

460

(1)

Women and Social Mobility

460

(1)

Changing Attitudes by and Toward Women

461

(1)

The Politics of Gender

462

(5)

The Mass Media and Gender: The More Things Change...

467

(4)

Sports and Gender Inequality

471

(1)

The Women's Movement: Any Net Gains?

472

(3)

Summary

475

(1)

Notes

475

(5)

The American Class System: A Summary and Interpretation

480

(1)

The General Structure of American Classes

480

(8)

The Class System and Racial-Ethnic Minorities

488

(2)

The Class System and Gender

490

(1)

The Structure of Social Power

490

(5)

The Problem-Solving Record

495

(4)

The Separation of Elites and Professions from Social Functions

499

(4)

The Ideal of an Adaptive Society

503

(7)

Notes

510

(3)

Index

513

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