The Blackwell companion to social inequalities / edited by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romero, Mary.

Margolis, Eric, 1947-

Wiley InterScience (Online service).

Series:

Blackwell companions to sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Social stratification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 612 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class and gender sexuality, age, and nationality. The volume highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. An international group of leading scholars gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities. They also identify likely new areas of research. An editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading round out the collection, making this a one-of-a-kind reference to the field.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. CONCEPTUALIZING INEQUALITIES

1. Historical Perspectives on Inequality

2. Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization?

3. Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition

4. Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World

5. Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity

PART II. EPISTEMOLOGY, METHOD, AND INEQUALITY

6. Conceptualizing a Critical Race Theory in Sociology

7. Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World

8. Labor-market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class

9. What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness

PART III. FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND EDUCATION

10. Children and Inequality

11. Parenting and Inequality

12. Migrant Networks: a Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration

13. Race, Education, and Inequality

PART IV. POLICY RESPONSES TO INEQUALITIES

14. Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality

15. Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship

16. Disability and Social Inequalities

17. The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare

18. The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa

19. Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population Politics, and NGOs

PART V. MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, AND INEQUALITIES

20. Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes

21. In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization

22. Minding the Cyber-gap: the Internet and Social Inequality

23. New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Blackwell companion to social inequalities.

ISBN:

1405152060

9781405152068

9780631231547

0631231544

9781405166713

1405166711

9786610285730

661028573X

Publisher Number:

99955226904

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