Social inequality in a global age / Scott Sernau.
Material type: TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Pine Forge, 2010.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 368 p. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781412977913 (pbk.) :
- 9781412977913 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 305 SER
- 305 22
- HM821 .S47 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 305 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00212593 |
Previous ed.: published as Worlds apart. 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I. ROOTS OF INEQUALITY 1. The Great Debate 2. The Global Divide: Inequality across Societies PART II. DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY 3. The Gordian Knot of Race, Class, and Gender 4. Class Privilege 5. Race and Class 6. Gender and Class 7. Status Prestige 8. Power and Politics PART III. CHALLENGES OF INEQUALITY 9. Moving Up: Education and Mobility 10. Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place 11. Reversing the Race to the Bottom: Poverty and Policy 12. Challenging the System: The Globalization of Race, Class and Gender
Scott Sernau offers a sociological framework for analysis of inequality within U.S. society as well as the relationship between global stratification systems & internal systems of inequality.