Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

by Grusky,David

• ISBN13: 9780813343303
• ISBN10: 0813343305
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780429979460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-24
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The field of inequality emerged out of a set of classic texts--important works that students and scholars continue to read and inform their ongoing research. Often controversial and deeply influential, these texts formed the field as we know it and serve as cornerstones even today. For the first time, these 20 classic texts have now been brought together in a new reader,Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, this important new volume provides: A solid introduction to fundamental concepts, theories, and empirical results. Carefully excerpted pieces that highlight the essential contributions while maintaining ample context for informed, serious discussion. A coherent selection of core readings appropriate for all inequality courses. The collection is a natural starting point for all new students of inequality as well as a useful reference for advanced scholars who could benefit from easy access to the classics. When used in inequality courses, the selections provided here may be supplemented with contemporary articles and books, thus allowing teachers the convenience of relying on a single source that distills the must-reads with the flexibility of tailoring contemporary readings to a particular course focus.

Author Biography

David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University . His recent books include Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender (Westview Press); Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men; Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics; Poverty and Inequality; and The Declining Significance of Gender? Szonja Szelényi has taught at Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin, and Cornell University. She is the author of Equality By Design.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
Is Inequality Inevitable?
Some Principles of Stratification	1	(6)
Kingsley Davis
Wilbert E. Moore
Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis	7	(14)
Melvin M. Tumin
The Structure of Social Inequality
Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism	21	(16)
Karl Marx
Class, Status, Party	37	(18)
Max Weber
The Division of Labor in Society	55	(10)
Emile Durkheim
Equality and Inequality in Modern Society, or Social Stratification Revisited	65	(6)
Talcott Parsons
Inequality at the Extremes
The Power Elite	71	(16)
C. Wright Mills
Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto	87	(16)
William Julius Wilson
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass	103	(16)
Douglas S. Massey
Nancy A. Denton
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequality
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market	119	(22)
Edna Bonacich
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions	141	(20)
William Julius Wilson
The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples	161	(18)
Alejandro Portes
Robert D. Manning
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union	179	(12)
Heidi Hartmann
Labor Markets as Queues: A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition	191	(16)
Barbara F. Reskin
Generating Inequality
Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System	207	(10)
Ralph H. Turner
The Process of Stratification	217	(20)
Peter M. Blau
Otis Dudley Duncan
The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process	237	(20)
William H. Sewell
Archibald O. Haller
Alejandro Portes
Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction	257	(16)
Pierre Bourdieu
The Consequences of Inequality
The Theory of the Leisure Class	273	(14)
Thorstein Veblen
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste	287	(32)
Pierre Bourdieu
Index	319