Roxanne Connelly, Vernon Gayle

Social Stratification

Trends and Processes
Herausgeber: Lambert, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

Social Stratification: Trends and Processes brings together a range of thematically organised case-studies comprising empirical and methodological analyses addressing the challenges of studying trends and processes in social stratification. Discussing key themes of social stratification, this volume will be of interest to students, academics and policy experts working in the field of social stratification.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781138250086
• ISBN-10: 1138250082
• Artikelnr.: 48092409

Autorenporträt

Paul Lambert, University of Stirling, UK, Roxanne Connelly, University of Stirling, UK, Robert M. Blackburn, University of Cambridge, UK and Vernon Gayle, University of Stirling, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction; I: Measuring Social Stratification; 2: Stratification
Research and Occupation-Based Social Classifications; 3: Measures and
Dimensions of Occupational Stratification: The Case of a Relational Scale
for Italy; 4: A Relational Occupational Scale for Russia; II: Social
Stratification Over the Life Course; 5: Cumulative Inequalities Along the
Life Course: Long-Term Trends in the German Labour Market; 6: Family
Background and the Life Cycle Effects of Father's Class and Income; 7:
Social Stratification and Cognitive Ability: An Assessment of the Influence
of Childhood Ability Test Scores and Family Background on Occupational
Position Across the Lifespan; 8: Intergenerational and Intragenerational
Social Mobility in Britain; III: Demographic, Institutional and
Socio-economic Changes; 9: Ethnicity and Skilled Work in the United States;
10: Occupation and Pay Across the Generations: The Labour Market Experience
of Four Ethno-Religious Groups in Britain; 11: The Labour Market Earnings
of Minority Ethnic Groups in Great Britain and the USA (1990-2000); 12: The
Relationship Between Social Stratification and First Birth in Scotland; 13:
Stratification, Work and Early Parenthood; 14: Labour Market Returns to
Tertiary Education in Post-Socialist Countries; IV: Political and Policy
Responses to Stratification; 15: Labouring Under a Misapprehension:
Politicians' Perceptions and the Realities of Structural Social Mobility in
Britain, 1995-2010; 16: Security or Equality? The Difficult Reform of the
Italian Welfare State; 17: Gender Inequality, Modernisation and Development
in South and Southeast Asia