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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romero, Mary.

Margolis, Eric, 1947-

Series:

Blackwell companions to sociology.

Blackwell companions to sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Social stratification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (629 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. Gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities. Includes an editorial introduction and suggestio

Contents:

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities; 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 World8. 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 Citizenship16. 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 Inequality23. New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610285730

9781280285738

1280285737

9781780340739

1780340737

9781405166713

1405166711

9780470996973

0470996978

9781405152068

1405152060

OCLC:

475964565