The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

by Editor: Mary Romero (Arizona State University); Editor: Eric Margolis (Arizona State University)

• ISBN13: 9781405152068
• ISBN10: 1405152060
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. Gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities. Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Conceptualizing Inequalities:

Historical Perspectives on Inequality

Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization?

Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition

Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World

Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity

Epistemology, Method, and Inequality:

Conceptualizing a Critical Race Theory in Sociology

Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World

Labor-market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class

What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness

Family, Community, and Education:

Children and Inequality

Parenting and Inequality

Migrant Networks: A Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration

Race, Education, and Inequality

Policy Responses to Inequalities:

Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality

Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship

Disability and Social Inequalities

Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare

The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa

Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population

Politics, and NGOs: Tulsi Patel

Media, Technology, and Inequalities:

Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes

In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization

Minding the Cyber-Gap, The Internet and Social Inequality

New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality

Index

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