Understanding Social Inequality Intersections of Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada

by McMullin, Julie

• ISBN13: 9780195417340
• ISBN10: 0195417348
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book examines the factors that contribute to inequality, providing a synthesis of research and theory of the four factors of inequality, and adding a fifth, age.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
PART I	1	(136)
Introduction	3	(15)
Defining Social Inequality	6	(3)
Defining Social Structure	9	(1)
Structures of Inequality	10	(3)
Human Agency: Connecting Individuals to Social Structures	13	(1)
Social Time	14	(1)
Sites of Inequality	14	(2)
Glossary	16	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	16	(1)
Recommended Reading	17	(1)
Class and Inequality	18	(23)
Introduction	18	(1)
Marx: Class as a Productive Social Relation	19	(2)
Neo-Marxism: Issues of Exploitation, Authority, and Credentials	21	(3)
Weber: Class, Power, and Distribution	24	(3)
Neo-Weberian Approaches: Frank Parkin	27	(2)
Neo-Weberian Approaches: Edward Grabb	29	(2)
A Note on Stratification Approaches	31	(3)
Conceptualizing Social Class in a Framework of Inequality	34	(5)
Glossary	39	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	40	(1)
Recommended Reading	41	(1)
Gender and Inequality	41	(17)
Introduction	41	(1)
Explanations of Gender-Based Inequality	42	(11)
Bringing It All Together	53	(1)
Conceptualizing Gender in a Theory of Inequality	54	(2)
Glossary	56	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	57	(1)
Recommended Reading	57	(1)
Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality	58	(24)
Introduction	58	(6)
Conceptualizing Race/Ethnicity and Racism/Ethnicism	64	(11)
Racism in Everyday Life	75	(2)
Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in a Theory of Inequality	77	(3)
Glossary	80	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	80	(1)
Recommended Reading	81	(1)
Age and Inequality	82	(21)
Introduction	82	(2)
Explanations of Age-Based Inequality	84	(16)
Conceptualizing Age in a Theory of Inequality	100	(1)
Glossary	101	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	102	(1)
Recommended Reading	102	(1)
Actors and Agency	103	(17)
Introduction	103	(1)
Actors and Human Action	103	(3)
Agency	106	(2)
Intersections of Agency and Structure	108	(10)
Glossary	118	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	118	(1)
Recommended Reading	119	(1)
Actors and CAGE(s)	120	(17)
Introduction	120	(3)
Social Time	123	(4)
Social Processes	127	(1)
Social Structure	128	(2)
Agency and Structure: Actors and CAGE(s)	130	(1)
Structure, Agency, and Anna's Life	131	(3)
Social Inequality	134	(1)
Glossary	135	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	135	(1)
Recommended Reading	135	(2)
PART II	137	(181)
CAGE(s), Families, and Unpaid Labour	138	(30)
Introduction	138	(2)
Defining Families	140	(1)
Domestic Labour	141	(10)
Violence in Families	151	(8)
Sexuality	159	(2)
Explaining Inequality in Families	161	(1)
Beyond Statistics: Agency and Experience within Families	162	(3)
Conclusions	165	(1)
Glossary	166	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	166	(1)
Recommended Reading	167	(1)
CAGE(s) and Paid Work	168	(33)
Introduction	168	(3)
Canada's Class and Occupational Structure	171	(8)
Unemployment	179	(3)
Income and Poverty	182	(9)
Alienation and Skill	191	(1)
Explaining Inequality in Paid Work	192	(3)
Beyond Statistics: Agency and Experience in Paid Work	195	(1)
Conclusion	195	(3)
Glossary	198	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	199	(1)
Recommended Reading	199	(2)
CAGE(s) and Education	201	(35)
Tammy Duerden Comeau
Julie McMullin
Introduction	201	(2)
Focusing on Class: Historical Notes and Existing Patterns	203	(7)
Focusing on Race/Ethnicity: Historical Notes and Existing Patterns	210	(6)
Focusing on Gender: Historical Notes and Exisiting Patterns	216	(6)
Focusing on Age and Life Course	222	(7)
Beyond the Statistics: Agency and Experience in Education	229	(4)
Conclusion	233	(1)
Glossary	233	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	234	(1)
Recommended Reading	235	(1)
CAGE(s) and Health	236	(42)
Tammy Duerden Comeau
Julie McMullin
Introduction	236	(2)
Inequality in Health: Some Current Perspectives and Critiques	238	(2)
Mortality, Morbidity, and Mental Health	240	(21)
Understanding Inequality in Health	261	(13)
Conclusion	274	(1)
Glossary	275	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	276	(1)
Recommended Reading	276	(2)
CAGE(s) and the State	278	(31)
Tammy Duerden Comeau
Julie McMullin
Introduction	278	(2)
Focusing on Class: Making Citizens, Making 'Class'	280	(7)
Focusing on Race: Making Citizens, Making 'Race'	287	(7)
Focusing on Gender: Engendering Citizens	294	(7)
Focusing on Age: Citizenship over the Life Course	301	(5)
Conclusion	306	(1)
Glossary	306	(1)
Questions for Critical Thought	307	(1)
Recommended Reading	308	(1)
Epilogue	309	(9)
Appendix A	318	(7)
References	325	(28)
Index	353