Synopses & Reviews
"[This text] reflects a clear vision of the scientific and intellectual history of the field, but it will also shape research and scholarship for years to come. For researchers, teachers, and students, Social Stratification will be an indispensable resource."
—Robert M. Hauser, National Research Council
"The revised edition of Social Stratification is the definitive reader in the field…A must-read."
—Barbara Reskin, University of Washington
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.
David B. Grusky is professor of sociology at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, founder and coeditor of Pathways Magazine, and coeditor of the Stanford University Press Social Inequality Series. His recent books include Occupy the Future, The Great Recession, The Inequality Reader (Westview Press), and Mobility and Inequality.
Review
A clear and in-depth discussion of how social policy has dealt with issues of poverty and inequality, and is a must for any college-level collection.”
The Midwest Book Review
Praise for the prior editions:
"Even America is not immune to the forces that give rise to class warfare. Now in a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded third edition, Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective by David B. Grusky continues to be the primary text comprising contributions by leading academicians and researchers on the issues associated with poverty and inequality within the United States. A standard text for more than a decade, this new third edition is an impressive body of sustained and seminal scholarship continues to insure that Social Stratification is an invaluable and emphatically recommended, core addition to professional and academic library Sociological Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists."
The Midwest Book Review
"While maintaining the depth and breadth of its predecessor, more than 30 new contributions to the second edition of Social Stratification strengthen its coverage of new theoretical and empirical work in social stratification. It reflects a clear vision of the scientific and intellectual history of the field, but it will also shape research and scholarship for years to come. For researchers, teachers, and students, Social Stratification will be an indispensable resource."
Robert M. Hauser, National Research Council
"The revised edition of Social Stratification is the definitive reader in the field. In this new edition, the author has revised virtually every section, adding both additional classics and new essays. For coverage of the field, this is a must-read."
Barbara Reskin, University of Washington
Synopsis
A demanding, comprehensive, no-holds-barred overview of the classic and cutting-edge writing and scholarship on poverty, inequality, and stratification
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.
Synopsis
The study of poverty and inequality has been thrust into the foreground as scholars, politicians, and policymakers respond to the spectacular increase in economic inequality and the slowing, stalling out, or even reversal of long-standing downward trends in other forms of inequality. The Grusky reader, which has been the mainstay of the field for well over a decade, has now been updated and revised to reflect ongoing changes in the structure of inequality and in the tools and concepts that scholars have used to understand these changes. In this heavily-updated fourth edition, the history of the field unfolds in systematic fashion, with the introductory articles in each section providing examples of the classical work that laid the conceptual or methodological foundation and the remaining chapters introducing students to the cutting-edge work that builds on that foundation and moves it forward. The resulting collection is comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and methodologically diverse. Although it is the classic primary text for courses on poverty, inequality, or gender, race, and class, it is also increasingly used as a supplementary text for sophisticated introductory sociology courses with an emphasis on issues of inequality.
Synopsis
Now in its fourth edition, this collection provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and methodologically diverse overview of classic and cutting-edge scholarship on poverty and inequality.
About the Author
David B. Grusky is professor of sociology at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, founder and coeditor of
Pathways Magazine, and coeditor of the Stanford University Press Social Inequality Series. His recent books include
Occupy the Future,
The New Gilded Age,
The Great Recession,
The Inequality Reader (Westview Press),
The Inequality Puzzle,
Poverty and Inequality,
Mobility and Inequality,
Occupational Ghettos, and
The Declining Significance of Gender?.
Katherine Weisshaar is a PhD candidate in the sociology department at Stanford University. Prior to arriving at Stanford, she graduated from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on gender, families, and income inequality.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
David B. Grusky and Katherine R. Weisshaar
David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi
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, Martín Sánchez 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. Gøsta 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. Sørensen
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, Iván Szelényi, 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 Jäntti, 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 Müller, 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. Sørensen 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. Tomás R. Jiménez
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. András 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. Gøsta Esping-Andersen
125. Michael Hout and Erin Cumberworth
POST-SOCIALISM
126. Victor Nee
127. Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, 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