Lisa A. Keister

Inequality (eBook, ePUB)

A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender offers a comprehensive introduction to the topics animating current sociological research focused on inequality. Contemporary, engaging, and research-oriented, it is the ideal text to help undergraduate students master the basic concepts in inequality research and gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which race, class, and gender interact with systems of social stratification. Following an introduction to theories and research methods used in the field, the authors apply these concepts to areas that define inequality research, including social mobility, education, gender, race, and culture. The authors include up-to-date quantitative evidence throughout. The text concludes by examining policies that have facilitated inequality and reviewing the social movements that in turn seek to reshape those structures. Though primarily focused on the United States, it includes a chapter on stratification across the globe and draws on cross-national comparisons throughout.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108944724
• Artikelnr.: 66183307

Autorenporträt

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.