This textbook provides a contemporary and comprehensive introduction to the study of inequality. It introduces the theories and research methods used in the field and applies them to the areas that define inequality research, including race, class, gender, and education. It includes up-to-date quantitative data, newly interpreted for this edition.
This textbook provides a contemporary and comprehensive introduction to the study of inequality. It introduces the theories and research methods used in the field and applies them to the areas that define inequality research, including race, class, gender, and education. It includes up-to-date quantitative data, newly interpreted for this edition.
Lisa A. Keister is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University and an affiliate of the Duke Network Analysis Center and the Duke Population Research Initiative. Her current research focuses on organization strategy, elite households, the processes that explain extremes in wealth and income inequality, and on group differences in the intergenerational transfer of assets. She is currently completing a book on America's wealthiest families, the one percent. Keister has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in inequality at Duke University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Ohio State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Inequality and opportunities 2. Explaining inequality 3. Understanding inequality 4. The structure of inequality and social class Part II. Applications: 5. The upper class and the elite 6. The middle class and workers 7. Poverty 8. Social mobility 9. Education and inequality 10. Gender inequality 11. Race and ethnicity 12. Culture 13. Inequality across the globe 14. Public policy and social change Index.
Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Inequality and opportunities 2. Explaining inequality 3. Understanding inequality 4. The structure of inequality and social class Part II. Applications: 5. The upper class and the elite 6. The middle class and workers 7. Poverty 8. Social mobility 9. Education and inequality 10. Gender inequality 11. Race and ethnicity 12. Culture 13. Inequality across the globe 14. Public policy and social change Index.
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