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Structure of Social Stratification in the United States (5th Ed.)
Author: Beeghley Leonard
Language: EnglishKeywords
occupational; prestige; white; collar; jobs; status; attainment; process; bureau; class; West Germany; Internal Revenue Service; United States; Crack Cocaine; Social Class; Skilled Blue Collar Job; TANF Benefit; Status Attainment Process; Job Perquisites; Life Chance; Egalitarian Gender Norms; White Collar Jobs; Middle Class People; White Collar People; Occupational Prestige; College Professors; TANF; People's Life Chances; Middle Class; Kuznets Hypothesis; Long Term Care Insurance; Traditional Gender Norms; Prestige Scores; Mental Experiment; Tax Expenditures
Publication date: 08-2017
· 19.1x23.5 cm · Hardback
Approximative price 77.27 €
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Add to cart the book of Beeghley LeonardPublication date: 06-2007
14 p. · Paperback
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Preface.
1. Sociology and Stratification.
Theoretical Perspectives on Stratification: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, Ralf Dahrendorf, Gerhard Lenski.
Modernity, the American Dream, and Anomie.
A Strategy for the Study of Stratification: Historical and Cross-National Dimensions of Stratification, Levels of Analysis and Stratification, Power and Stratification.
2. Race/Ethnicity and Stratification.
Dimensions of Racial and Ethnic Stratification: Racial and Ethnic Stratification in the United States, Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Cross-National Perspective.
Anomie, the American Dream, and the Impact of Racial and Ethnic Stratification.
The Individual and Racial and Ethnic Stratification: Public Place Discrimination, Organizational Discrimination.
Social Structure and Racial and Ethnic Stratification: Historical Variations in Racial and Ethnic Group Mobility, Racial and Ethnic Inequality Today.
3. Gender and Stratification.
Dimensions of Gender Stratification: Gender Stratification in the United States, Gender Stratification in Cross-National Perspective..
Some Consequences of Gender Stratification: Authority and Gender, Victimization and Gender.
The Individual and Gender Stratification: Women's Choices, Discrimination.
Social Structure and Gender Stratification: The Decline of Gender Stratification, The Continuation of Gender Stratification.
4.Social Class and Stratification: Occupational Prestige and Class Identification.
Occupational Prestige: Occupational Prestige in the United States, The Meaning of Occupational Prestige, Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Occupational Prestige, The Stability of Occupational Prestige over Time, The Stability of Occupational Prestige across Societies?
Class Identification: Patterns of Class Identification, The Meaning of Class Identification, A Note on Employed Married Women.
5. Social Class and Stratification: Mobility and Status Attainment.
Social Mobility: Social Mobility in the United States, Social Mobility in Cross-National Perspective.
Social Structure and Mobility: Structural Mobility, Circulation Mobility, An Example of Upward Mobility.
Status Attainment: Status Attainment in the United States, Status Attainment in Cross-National Perspective.
The Individual and Status Attainment: Two Vignettes, Social Class and Status Attainment.
Anomie, The Ameriacn Dream, and Stratification.
6. Political Participation and Power.
Types of Participation: Voting, Partisanship, Unruliness.
The Rate of Voting: Voting in the United States, Voting in Cross-National Perspective.
Social Structure and Voting: Type of Electoral System, Who Gets to Vote, Gerrymandering, Election Day, Registration Requirements, Degree of Inequality, A Note on Voting Technology and Counting the Votes.
Partisanship and the Role of Money in Elections: The Cost of Winning Money, Winning, and Reelection Where Does the Money Come From? An Example.
Social Class and Political Partisanship.
Conclusion: Political Participation and Anomie.
7. The Rich.
The Characteristics of the Rich: Counting the Rich, The Basis of Great Wealth, The Concentration of Wealth.
The Historical Trend in the Distribution of Wealth: The Kuznets Hypothesis, The Colonial Era, The Nineteenth Century, The Twentieth Century, The Trend Since 1980.
The Origin and Expansion of Wealth.
Power and Wealth Inequ