Books On Social Inequality

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The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)
Book by Mary Romero, Eric Margolis (Editor)

Inside Toyland : Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality Book by Christine L. Williams, From Publishers Weekly

The Shape of Social Inequality : Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility) Book by David Bills

Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (Studies in Social Inequality) Book by Maria Charles, David B. Grusky

Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes Book by Martin Marger

Social Inequality and Social Injustice : A Human Rights Perspective Book by Evelyn Kallen

Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective Book by Fiona Devine (Editor), Mary C. Waters (Editor)

Worlds Apart: Social Inequalities In A Global Economy Book by Scott Sernau

Injury : The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States
Book by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain

Home Ownership and Social Inequality: In Comparative Perspective (Studies in Social Inequality) Book by Karin Kurz (Editor), Hans-Peter Blossfeld (Editor)

Social Inequality Book by Kathryn M. Neckerman (Editor)

Great Divides : Readings in Social Inequality in the United States Book by Thomas Shapiro

Respect in a World of Inequality Book by Richard Sennett

Understanding Social Inequality: Intersections of Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada Book by Julie McMullin

Reviews:

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)
Book by Mary Romero, Eric Margolis (Editor)
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class and gender sexuality, age, and nationality. The volume highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. An international group of leading scholars gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities.

Inside Toyland : Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality Book by Christine L. Williams, From Publishers Weekly
Williams, the editor of the journal Gender & Society and author of Still a Man's World, takes the Nickle and Dimed approach to toy retailing by working as a cashier in a high-end and a big box toy store for six weeks each, turning the scrutinizing eye of a sociologist onto the sandbox.

The Shape of Social Inequality : Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility) Book by David Bills
This volume brings together former students, colleagues, and others influenced by the sociological scholarship of Archibald O. Haller to celebrate Haller's many contributions to theory and research on social stratification and mobility. All of the chapters respond to Haller's programmatic agenda for stratification research: "A full program aimed at understanding stratification requires: first, that we know what stratification structures consist of and how they may vary; second, that we identify the individual and collective consequences of the different states and rates of change of such structures; and third, seeing that some degree of stratification seems to be present everywhere, that we identify the factors that make stratification structures change." The contributors to this Festschrift address such topics as the changing nature of stratification regimes, the enduring significance of class analysis, the stratifying dimensions of race, ethnicity, and gender, and the interplay between educational systems and labor market outcomes. Many of the chapters adopt an explicitly cross-societal comparative perspective on processes and consequences of social stratification. The volume offers both conceptually and empirically important new analyses of the shape of social stratification.

Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (Studies in Social Inequality) Book by Maria Charles, David B. Grusky
The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This development, while spectacular, has been coupled with similarly impressive forms of resistance to equalization, most notably the continuing tendency for women to crowd into female "occupational ghettos." This book answers the important questions: Why has such extreme segregation persisted even as other types of gender inequality have lessened? Why is segregation especially extreme in precisely those countries that appear most committed to egalitarian reform and family-friendly policies?
Maria Charles is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.

Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes Book by Martin Marger
This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing on social class and theories, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they overlap and interrelate.

Social Inequality and Social Injustice : A Human Rights Perspective Book by Evelyn Kallen
This book uses a human rights framework to analyze how group-level social inequalities and injustices are socially constructed and maintained through violations of human rights on grounds of race, gender, sexuality, etc., and how human rights legislation can help such violations to effectively be redressed. Although it focuses primarily on democratic nations, it uses international case material to highlight key global issues.

Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective Book by Fiona Devine (Editor), Mary C. Waters (Editor)
This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the world have contributed to this exciting and rigorous volume, drawing upon their own research in the fields of race and ethnicity, class and inequality, and gender and sexuality.
Qualitative research on social inequalities is enjoying increasing prominence in the sub-discipline of social stratification because it addresses issues of culture, identity, experience, meaning and process. This collection is at the cutting edge of the study of social inequalities and identifies new directions of thinking about and doing research on race, class and gender in a stimulating and innovative way.
Examples of race, class or gender inequalities are considered from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Portugal, Finland, and Japan. Each essay reflects on methodological issues and the strengths of qualitative research, and examines how new areas of research contribute to new ways of thinking. As a whole, these essays encourage students to see the study of social inequalities as central to a sociological understanding of contemporary societies in the twenty-first century.

Worlds Apart: Social Inequalities In A Global Economy Book by Scott Sernau
This book focuses primarily on social inequalities in the American context. However, a trend in this course is how the global inequalities are effecting, and affected by social stratification and inequality in America. The second edition of Sernau's "Worlds Apart" reflects that trend.
Provides a sociological framework for analyzing inequality within U.S. society as well as analyzing the relationship between global stratification systems and internal systems of inequality.
Places each issue and dimension of inequality in the context of a changing global economy.
Engages undergraduates in the subject matter with lively writing and fascinating cases, but also interprets these lived experiences by introducing classical and contemporary theories of stratification.
This book is intended as the primary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who are enrolled in Social Stratification and Inequality courses, primarily taught in Sociology departments.
Three new Visual Essays which provide powerful illustrations of inequality in Global (Honduras), Rural (Navaholand), and Urban (Deindustrialized) Contexts.
This edition’s theme has been how the current regime of market-driven solutions actually contribute to rather than reduce social inequality.
This edition continues to highlight inequality in America, with the addition of how Social Inequalities in America are effected by global inequalities.
Scott Sernau is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, South Bend where he regularly teaches Social Inequality, International Inequalities, Sociology of the Family, Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Problems, Mexican Culture and Society, and Urban Society.

Injury : The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States
Book by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain
A landmark work in the cultural study of American law and social inequality -- creatively conceived, richly researched, and provocatively written - Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University.

Home Ownership and Social Inequality: In Comparative Perspective (Studies in Social Inequality) Book by Karin Kurz (Editor), Hans-Peter Blossfeld (Editor)
Although a strong indicator of social status, home ownership has rarely emerged as a topic in social inequality research. This book compares twelve countries to determine the interdependence of social inequality and homeownership attainment over the life course. This book presents a valuable contribution to the social stratification literature, which traditionally has neglected the dimension of home ownership.

Social Inequality Book by Kathryn M. Neckerman (Editor)
Inequality in income, earnings, and wealth has risen dramatically in the United States over the past three decades. Most research into this issue has focused on the causes—global trade, new technology, and economic policy—rather than the consequences of inequality. In "Social Inequality," a group of the nation’s leading social scientists opens a wide-ranging inquiry into the social implications of rising economic inequality. Beginning with a critical evaluation of the existing research, they assess whether the recent run-up in economic inequality has been accompanied by rising inequality in social domains such as the quality of family and neighborhood life, equal access to education and health care, job satisfaction, and political participation.
Marcia Meyers and colleagues find that many low-income mothers cannot afford market-based child care, which contributes to inequality both at the present time—by reducing maternal employment and family income—and through the long-term consequences of informal or low-quality care on children’s educational achievement. At the other end of the educational spectrum, Thomas Kane links the growing inequality in college attendance to rising tuition and cuts in financial aid. Neil Fligstein and Taek-Jin Shin show how both job security and job satisfaction have decreased for low-wage workers compared with their higher-paid counterparts. Those who fall behind economically may also suffer diminished access to essential social resources like health care. John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert, and Barbara Wolfe discuss why higher inequality may lead to poorer health: wider inequality might mean increased stress-related ailments for the poor, and it might also be associated with public health care policies that favor the privileged. On the political front, Richard Freeman concludes that political participation has become more stratified as incomes have become more unequal. Workers at the bottom of the income scale may simply be too hard-pressed or too demoralized to care about political participation. "Social Inequality" concludes with a comprehensive section on the methodological problems involved in disentangling the effects of inequality from other economic factors, which will be of great benefit to future investigators.
While today’s widening inequality may be a temporary episode, the danger is that the current economic divisions may set in motion a self-perpetuating cycle of social disadvantage. The most comprehensive review of this quandary to date, "Social Inequality" maps out a new agenda for research on inequality in America with important implications for public policy.

Great Divides : Readings in Social Inequality in the United States Book by Thomas Shapiro
Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the 47 readings in this anthology illustrate basic theories, concepts, and findings associated with social inequality in the United States.

Respect in a World of Inequality Book by Richard Sennett
The author begins by identifying several elements of respect (status, prestige, recognition) and moves smoothly into a discussion of three fundamental factors that weaken mutual respect: unequal talent, dependence on others, and hurtful compassion. His analysis leads him to propose a new kind of society, one that accepts that people are unequal, that some of us are more talented, or more compassionate, or more dependent on others.

Social inequalities in the American context.