Read more
Informationen zum Autor Scott Sernau is professor of sociology and director of International Programs at Indiana University, South Bend, where he regularly teaches social inequality, international inequalities, sustainability and urban society. He has received multiple campus and university awards for distinguished teaching and distinguished service to teaching and learning. He is editor of Contemporary Readings in Globalization (SAGE) and his previous books include: Economies of Exclusion (Praeger), Critical Choices (Oxford), Bound: Living in the Globalized World (Stylus), and Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace and Sustainability (Pearson). Klappentext This updated Fifth Edition of Scott Sernau's acclaimed text provides a sociological framework for analyzing inequality within the United States in the context of global stratification and a rapidly changing world economy. With insightful analysis, the text provides an accessible introduction to stratification systems and the structural and personal realities of growing class divides. Using examples drawn straight from today's headlines, Sernau explores each dimension of inequality as he analyzes the relationship between changing global power and growing inequalities within countries. Throughout, a focus on social action and community engagement encourages students to become involved, active learners in the classroom and engaged citizens in their communities. Zusammenfassung This updated Fifth Edition of Scott Sernau's acclaimed text provides a sociological framework for analyzing inequality within the United States in the context of global stratification and a rapidly changing world economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Roots of Inequality 1. The Gordian Knot of Race, Class, and Gender Dimensions of an Unequal World Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States The Development of Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender Across Societies A Social Network Understanding of Inequality 2. The Great Debate The Historical Debate The Sociological Debate Reframing the Debate 3. The Global Divide: Inequality Across Societies Worlds Coming Apart and Coming Together The Double Divide The Global Debate Globalization: The Ties That Bind Immigration: Seeking to Cross the Divide The Market Paradox PART II. DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY 4. Class Privilege Wealth and Property Occupation Income Class Structure Growing Inequality 5. Racial and Ethnic Inequality A Debt Unpaid: Internal Colonialism Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Solidarity The Analytic Debate: Cultures and Structures of Poverty Colorful Language The Color of Justice 6. Gender and Sexual Inequality When Men Were Men From Glass Slippers to Glass Ceilings Work and Family: The Double Burden and the Second Shift Gender and Class Around the World Changing Norms on Gender and Sexuality 7. Status Prestige The Quest for Honor Socialization: Acquiring Marks of Distinction Association: Whom You Know Lifestyles of the Rich and the Destitute Tastes in Transition 8. Power and Politics People Power and Powerful People Who Rules? The Power Elite Debate Changing the Rules: Campaign Finance Reform Global Power: Who Really Rules? PART III. CHALLENGES OF INEQUALITY 9. Moving Up: Education and Mobility Getting Ahead Education: Opening Doors, Opening Minds No Child Left Behind Ladders With Broken Rungs 10. Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place Urban Poverty: Abandoned Spaces The Making and Unmaking of the Postindustrial City Brain-Gain and Brain-Drain Cities Suburban Poverty: The Urban Fringe Rural Poverty: For...
