Top
Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
Customer Reviews Read Reviews
Write a Review
Charles E. Hurst grew up on the ethnic south-side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his experiences there fostered a life-long interest in social inequality and social theory. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and later his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He retired in 2008 as Professor of Sociology from The College of Wooster, after having taught courses on inequality in America and social theory for over 40 years. His research resulted in articles on class consciousness, status inconsistency, and socioeconomic status and health care, and most recently, Amish society. His books include The Anatomy of Social Inequality (C. V. Mosby 1979), Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life, 2nd edition (Allyn & Bacon 2005), and Social Inequality: Forms, Causes and Consequences, 7th edition (Allyn & Bacon 2010). During the last several years, his interest in social inequality led him to conduct research on issues related to women’s status, wealth, and class distinctions within the Ohio Amish community. With a colleague, he has completed the first in-depth study of this settlement, soon to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press as An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community.
| Preface | |
| An Introduction to the Study of Social Inequality | |
| Some Controversial Issues of Substance | |
| Issues of Methodology | |
| Organization of the Book | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Extent and Forms of Social Inequality | |
| Economic Inequality | |
| The Everyday Reality of Class | |
| Two Views of U.S. Class Structure | |
| Technology and the Shaping of the U.S. Class Structure | |
| Income Inequality | |
| Is the Middle Class Shrinking? | |
| Wealth Inequality in the United States | |
| The Global Context and the Impact of Globalization | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Status Inequality | |
| The Theory of Social Status | |
| Spheres of Status in the United States | |
| Inequality in Appalachia | |
| Globalization and Axes of Social Status | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Political Inequality | |
| Portraits of National Power Structure | |
| Distribution of Political Power | |
| Interlinkage of Economic and Political Power | |
| Ruling-Class Unity | |
| Power Inequality in the Work Experience | |
| Power Inequality in a Global and Globalizing Context | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Sex and Gender Inequality | |
| The Status of Women in the Early United States | |
| Present Occupational and Economic Conditions for Women | |
| Microinequities in the Treatment of Women | |
| General Theories of Sex and Gender Inequality | |
| The Global Context and the Impact of Globalization | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Sexual Orientation and Inequality | |
| The Complexity of Sexuality and Gender | |
| Public Opinions on Homosexuality | |
| Homosexuals as a Status Group | |
| Discrimination, Legal Confusion, and Sexual Orientation | |
| A Socioeconomic Profile of Homosexuals | |
| Negative Consequences of Stigmatization | |
| Globalization and Sexuality | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Racial and Ethnic Inequality | |
| The Meaning and Creation of Race | |
| U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations: An Historical Sketch | |
| Racial and Ethnic Inequality Today | |
| Microinequities in the Treatment of Racial and Ethnic Minorities | |
| The Intersection of Class, Race, Sex, and Gender | |
| Theories of Racial and Ethnic Inequality | |
| The Global Context, Immigration, and Globalization | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| General Explanations of Inequality | |
| Classical Explanations of Inequality | |
| Karl Marx (1818-1883) | |
| Max Weber (1864-1920) | |
| Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) | |
| Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) | |
| Marx, Weber, and Globalization | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Contemporary Explanations of Inequality | |
| Functionalist Theory of Stratification | |
| Theories of Social Reproduction | |
| Labor-Market Theories of Income and Earnings Distribution | |
| Identifying Mechanisms that Produce Inequality | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Consequences of Social Inequality | |
| The Impact of Inequality on Personal Life Chances | |
| Basic Life Chances: Physical Health | |
| Basic Life Chances: Psychological Health | |
| Basic Life Chances: Food and Shelter | |
| Life Chances in a Global Context | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Social Consequences of Inequality | |
| Violence in the Family | |
| Inequality and the Measurement of Crime | |
| Street Crime and Inequality | |
| White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, and Punishment | |
| Hate Crimes and Inequality | |
| Structured Inequality and Collective Protests | |
| Social Inequality and Environmental Equity | |
| Social Consequences on a Global Scale | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Social Inequality and Social Movements | |
| The Labor Movement | |
| The Civil Rights Movement | |
| The Women's Movement | |
| Inequality, Context, and Social Movements: A Synthesis | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Stability and Change in the System of Social Inequality | |
| Social Mobility and Status Attainment: Openness in U.S. Society | |
| uestions Concerning Openness | |
| omparative Studies of Mobility | |
| tatus Attainment: What Determines How Far One Goes? | |
| obility and Attainment Process among African Americans | |
| atterns of Mobility and Attainment among Women | |
| ummary | |
| ritical Thinking | |
| eb Connections | |
| Justice and Legitimacy: Assessments of the Structure of Inequality | |
| U.S. Attitudes about the Distribution of Income and Wealth | |
| What is a Just Distribution? | |
| Bases for the Legitimation of Structured Inequality | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Addressing Inequality and Poverty: Programs and Reforms | |
| Confronting Inequality | |
| The Conundrum of Defining Poverty | |
| Levels of and Trends in Poverty | |
| Perceptions of the Poor and Theories of Poverty | |
| Poverty Programs | |
| Flaws in pre-1996 Assistance Programs | |
| Welfare Reform | |
| Suggestions for Reducing Inequality | |
| Summary | |
| Critical Thinking | |
| Web Connections | |
| Glossary of Basic Terms | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
Need Help? Copyright © 1999-2024