Edited book
The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
Research in social stratification and mobility, v. 22, Elsevier JAI
2005
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- Contributors
- David B Bills (Editor) - University of Iowa, Sociology and Criminology
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- Publisher
- Elsevier JAI; Amsterdam ; San Diego, CA
- Series
- Research in social stratification and mobility; v. 22
- ISBN
- 9780762311781; 0762311789
- eISBN
- 9780080459356; 0080459358
- Number of pages
- xxvii, 475 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2005
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Sociology and Criminology; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9983948900002771
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