With income inequality on the rise and the ongoing economic downturn, the causes, consequences, and politics of inequality are undergoing a fundamental transformation. Updated and highly accessible, the fourth edition of Social Stratification provides refreshing take on existing theories, incorporates the latest data, and lends new perspectives to classic debates. The fourth edition includes fifty new or updated readings and a new streamlined organization that allows the evolution of stratification scholarship to unfold in a systematic fashion. The new readings cover the latest research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the new immigrant economy, new forms of segregation and neighborhood inequality, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality, and the extent of anti-gay discrimination in the labor market.
The result is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and methodologically diverse text appropriate for sophisticated undergraduate and graduate courses on poverty, inequality, social stratification, social problems, the labor market, social class, social mobility, and race and ethnicity.
1. Introduction David B. Grusky and Katherine R. Weisshaar David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi PART I: THE FUNCTIONS AND DYSFUNCTIONS OF INEQUALITY 2. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore 3. Melvin M. Tumin 4. Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss PART II: INEQUALITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE CROSS-SOCIETAL DIFFERENCES 5. David B. Grusky and Katherine R. Weisshaar 6. Gosta Esping-Andersen and John Myles TRENDS IN ECONOMIC INEQUALITY 7. Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez 8. Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz 9. Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfeld 10. Robert Frank 11. Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson 12. Thomas A. DiPrete, Gregory M. Eirich, and Matthew Pittinsky 13. Yujia Liu and David B. Grusky PART III: THE STRUCTURE OF INEQUALITY MARXIAN THEORIES OF CLASS 14. Karl Marx 15. Ralf Dahrendorf 16. Erik Olin Wright 17. Immanuel Wallerstein WEBERIAN THEORIES OF CLASS 18. Max Weber 19. Anthony Giddens 20. Frank Parkin 21. Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe DURKHEIMIAN THEORIES OF CLASS 22. Emile Durkheim 23. Kim A. Weeden and David B. Grusky CLASSIC GRADATIONALISM 24. Donald J. Treiman 25. John H. Goldthorpe and Keith Hope 26. David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser 27. Robert M. Hauser and John Robert Warren THE NEW GRADATIONALISM? 28. Aage B. Sorensen 29. Amartya K. Sen PART IV: THE RULING CLASS, ELITES, AND THE UPPER CLASS CLASSIC STATEMENTS 30. Gaetano Mosca 31. C. Wright Mills 32. Anthony Giddens CONTEMPORARY STATEMENTS 33. G. William Domhoff 34. Alvin W. Gouldner 35. David Brooks 36. Gil Eyal, Ivan Szelenyi, and Eleanor Townsley 37. Andrew G. Walder PART V: POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS THE EXPERIENCE OF POVERTY 38. Barbara Ehrenreich 39. Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, and Joanna Miranda Reed POVERTY AND THE ECONOMY 40. William Julius Wilson 41. Sheldon Danziger, Koji Chavez, and Erin Cumberworth THE EFFECTS OF POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS 42. Lane Kenworthy 43. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. OBrien NEIGHBORHOODS AND SEGREGATION 44. Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 45. Robert Sampson 46. Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum 47. Patrick Sharkey and Felix Elwert HOW IMPORTANT IS EARLY CHILDHOOD? 48. James J. Heckman 49. Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson 50. Gary W. Evans, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Pamela Kato Klebanov INCARCERATION AND POVERTY 51. Bruce Western and Becky Pettit PART VI: WHE GETS AHEAD? CLASS MOBILITY 52. David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser 53. Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe 54. Richard Breen 55. Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, and Reinhard Pollak INCOME MOBILITY 56. Gary Solon 57. John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, Timothy Smeeding, and James A. Wilson CLASSIC MODELS OF STATUS ATTAINMENT 58. Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree 59. Christopher Jencks, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert Gintis, Barbara Heyns, and Stephan Michelson EDUCATION AND REPRODUCTION 60. Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe 61. Sean F. Reardon 62. Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Muller, and Reinhard Pollak 63. Michelle Jackson 64. Sigal Alon 65. Florencia Torche 66. Jennie E. Brand and Yu Xie SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS 67. William H. Sewell, Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes 68. Jay MacLeod 69. Stephen L. Morgan LABOR MARKETS 70. Michael J. Piore 71. Aage B. Sorensen and Arne L. Kalleberg 72. Arne L. Kalleberg 73. Jake Rosenfeld SOCIAL CAPITAL, NETWORKS, AND ATTAINMENT 74. Mark S. Granovetter 75. Nan Lin 76. Ronald S. Burt 77. Roberto M. Fernandez and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo 78. Paul DiMaggio and Filiz Garip PART VII: RACE AND ETHNICITY CONSTRUCTING RACIAL CATEGORIES 79. Michael Omi and Howard Winant 80. Aliya Saperstein and Andrew M. Penner CLASSIC MODES OF INCORPORATION 81. Edna Bonacich 82. Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning 83. Richard D. Alba and Victor Nee NEW MODES OF INCORPORATION 84. Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou 85. Tomas R. Jimenez DISCRIMINATION 86. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan 87. Claude Steele 88. Devah Pager ARE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISTINCTIONS DECLINING IN SIGNIFICANCE? 89. William Julius Wilson 90. Reanne Frank, Ilana Redstone Akresh, and Bo Lu 91. Zhenchao Qian and Daniel T. Lichter PART VIII: GENDER INEQUALITY LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION 92. Arlie Russell Hochschild 93. Lisa Belkin 94. Christine Percheski DISCRIMINATION 95. Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse 96. Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik 97. Andras Tilcsik 98. Barbara F. Reskin 99. Trond Petersen SEX SEGREGATION 100. William T. Bielby 101. Jerry A. Jacobs 102. Barbara F. Reskin 103. Elizabeth H. Gorman and Julie A. Kmec 104. Maria Charles and David B. Grusky GENDER GAP IN WAGES 105. Trond Petersen and Laurie A. Morgan 106. Paula England 107. Tony Tam 108. Francine Blau HOW GENDER INTERSECTS 109. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins 110. Emily Greenman and Yu Xie A STALLING OUT? 111. Paula England 112. David Cotter, Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman 113. Cecilia L. Ridgeway PART IX: THE CONSEQUENCES OF INEQUALITY LIFESTYLES 114. Pierre Bourdieu 115. Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe 116. Annette Lareau 117. Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff POLITICS AND ATTITUDES 118. Thomas Frank 119. Michael Hout and Daniel Laurison HEALTH 120. Johannes Siegrist and Michael Marmot 121. Karen Lutfey and Jeremy Freese 122. Richard Miech, Fred Pampel, Jinyoung Kim, and Richard G. Rogers PART X: THE FUTURE OF INEQUAITY INDUSTRIALISM AND POST-INDUSTRIALISM 123. Daniel Bell 124. Gosta Esping-Andersen 125. Michael Hout and Erin Cumberworth POST-SOCIALISM 126. Victor Nee 127. Gil Eyal, Ivan Szelenyi, and Eleanor Townsley 128. Andrew G. Walder POST-MODERNITY AND HIGH MODERNITY 129. John W. Meyer 130. Anthony Giddens GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY 131. Joseph E. Stiglitz 132. Glenn Firebaugh