Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes
Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes
- ISBN 13:
9780073528304
- ISBN 10:
0073528307
- Edition: 5th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 04/29/2010
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
- Newer Edition
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Summary
Highly readable and comprehensive,Social Inequality: Patterns and Processespresents an introduction to key concepts, research findings, trends, and theories in the major forms of social inequality: class, racial/ethnic, gender, and political. Students are encouraged to develop an awareness of the subtle and often unseen ways in which inequality is structured and how it impinges on virtually all facets of individual and group life. Although the focus is primarily directed toward American society, the text presents numerous cross-national illustrations that compare income, wealth, poverty, mobility, gender, and other dimensions of stratification in the U.S. to other societies. Emphasis is placed on the interweaving nature of the different forms of social inequality and on the role of public policy and ideology in shaping and sustaining inequality.