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This book addresses the race and class differentials in life chances and income, cross—national and institutional variability in employment systems and inequality, the division of domestic labor within households, and the implications of demographic change for social inequality.
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Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART ONE -- Introduction -- 1 How Pock Shaped Me, Paul M. Siegel -- PART TWO -- The Contours of Social Differentiation -- 2 The Logic of Employment Systems, /Neil Fligstein and Haldor Byrkjeflot -- 3 Income Differences Among 31 Ethnic Groups in Los Angeles, /Donald f. Treiman and Hye-kyung Lee -- 4 The Structure of Career Mobility in Microscopic Perspective, /]esper B. Serensen and David B. Grusky -- PART THREE -- Demographic Aspects of Social Differentiation -- 5 Demography and the Evolution of Educational Inequality, /Robert D. Mare -- 6 The Decline of Infant Mortality in China: Sichuan, 1949-1988, /William M. Mason, William Lavely, Hiromi Ono, and Angelique Chan -- PART FOUR -- Gender and Social Differentiation -- 7 Vive la Difference! Continuity and Change in the Gender Wage Gap, 1967-1987, /Martina Morris -- 8 Gender Inequalities in the Distribution of Responsibility, /Carol A. Heimer -- 9 Currents and Anchors: Structure and Change in Australian Gender Role Attitudes, 1984-1989, /M.D.R. Evans and Karen Oppenheim Mason -- 10 The Social Construction of Modem Intelligence: An Exploration of Gender-Differentiated Boundaries, /William Tudor -- PART FIVE -- Conclusion -- 11 Social Differentiation and Inequality: Some Reflections on the State of the Field, /fames N. Baron, David B. Grusky, and Donald J. Treiman -- PART SIX -- Appendixes -- A Biographical Sketches of Contributors -- B Reed College Students Who Became Professional Sociologists, 1957-1991 -- About the Book and Editors.
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James N Baron, David B Grusky, Donald Treiman
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This book addresses the race and class differentials in life chances and income, cross—national and institutional variability in employment systems and inequality, the division of domestic labor within households, and the implications of demographic change for social inequality.
