A Nation Divided - Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society

Phyllis Moen is Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies and Professor of Sociology and of Human Development at Cornell University, where she is a founding director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. Donna Dempster-McClain, Senior Lecturer in Human Development, is Associate Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. Henry A. Walker is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

Summary

The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve...

Product details

• Assisted by: Donna Dempster-McClain (Editor), Phyllis Moen (Editor), Henry A. Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.1999
• EAN: 9780801485886
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8588-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: Ilr Press Book; Ilr Press Book
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore