A Nation Divided : Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society / Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Henry A. Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dempster-McClain, Donna, editor.

Moen, Phyllis, editor.

Walker, Henry A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

Social stratification--United States.

Social stratification.

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 346 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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 sexual and gender minorities, those who possess alternate family forms, and white and nonwhite immigrants, as well as the widening gulf between rich and poor Americans.A Nation Divided offers a fresh approach to these controversial issues. In this volume, leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity and inequality. Using the latest theory and research, the authors show how different groups become socially and economically unequal and how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national stability. They also discuss strategies for reducing durable inequality and creating social harmony. Their contributions address the changing demography of diversity and inequality and the interplay of diversity, inequality, and community in educational institutions, the military, the family, popular culture, and religion.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Lewis, Philip E.

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Walker, Henry A. / Moen, Phyllis / Dempster-McCiain, Donna

Part One: Diversity And Inequality

1. Durable Inequality / Tilly, Charles

2. Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society: The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality / Kohn, Melvin L.

3. Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door? / Walker, Henry A.

4. Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One, Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others? / Bern, Sandra Lipsitz

Part Two: The New Demography Of Durable Inequality

5. The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970-90 / Hirschman, Charles / Snipp, C. Matthew

6. Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York / Alba, Richard / Logan, John / Zhang, Wenquan / Stults, Brian J.

7. Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto / Wilson, William Julius

8. Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy / Brown, David L. / Lee, Marlene A.

Part Three: Durable Inequality In American Institutions

Education

9. Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths? / Ehrenberg, Ronald G. / Rothstein, Donna S. / Olsen, Robert B.

Military

10. Overcoming Race:Army Lessons for American Society / Moskos, Charles / Butler, John Sibley

11. War's Legacy in Men's Lives / Elder, Glen H. / Chan, Christopher

Religion

12. Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play? / Yinger, J. Milton

Family

13. Diversity in American Families / Treas, Judith

Mass Media

14. Television And Diversity:The Quantum Leap Model / Gibbs, James Lowell

Part Four:Afterword

15. The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions / Williams, Robin M. / Rose, Peter I.

16. Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions / Rose, Peter I.

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-326) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781501728914

1501728911

OCLC:

1132223620