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| Author | : Earl Wysong |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2013-07-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442205296 |
The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever. The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized throughout, including a new introduction that offers an overview of key themes and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics. New material for the fourth edition includes a discussion of "The Great Recession" and its ongoing impact, the demise of the middle class, rising costs of college and increasing student debt, the role of electronic media in shaping people's perceptions of class, and more.
| Author | : Robert Perrucci |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780742545540 |
This book explores how class-based resources and interests embedded in large organizations are linked to powerful structures and processes which in turn are rapidly polarizing the U.S. into a highly unequal, 'double diamond' class structure. The authors show how and why American class membership in the 21st century is based on an organizationally-based distribution of critical resources including income, investment capital, credentialed skills verified by elite schools, and social connections to organizational leaders.
| Author | : Robert Perrucci |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780742519381 |
Extensively revised, the second edition of The New Class Society includes innovative new sections and concepts throughout the book that identify and explore how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender, and racial inequalities. The authors describe how 'inequality scripts' shape the hiring and promotion practices of organizations in ways that provide differential opportunities to people based on class, gender, and racial memberships. The authors also illustrate how privileged class members benefit from organizationally-based and perpetuated forms of inequality. The second edition retains its provocative argument for of an emerging 'double-diamond' social structure and its focus on class interests that are rapidly polarizing American society. New figures, tables, and references incorporate the latest information and research findings to document and illustrate key topics, such as the distribution of wealth and income, globalization, downsizing, contingent labor, the role of money in politics, media content and consolidation, the transformation of education, and the erosion of democracy. The second edition combines scholarship with an engaging style and flashes of comic relief-with several cartoons by some of the best satirists today. The book, accessibly written for undergraduate students, has been widely adopted in courses on stratification, economic sociology, and American society.
| Author | : John McAdams |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2016-04-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137515414 |
The traditional class analysis of politics in industrial societies described a conflict that pitted the well-off business class against the working class in a "democratic class struggle." This book holds that economic development has produced a New Class which rivals the business class in the politics of post-industrial societies.
| Author | : Paul Fussell |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0671792253 |
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
| Author | : Sidney L. Harring |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781608468546 |
An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
| Author | : Lawrence P. King |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Communism and intellectuals |
| ISBN | : 9781452906836 |
| Author | : Paul W. Kingston |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780804738040 |
This broad assessment is the basis for Kingston's conclusion that classes do not exist in America in any meaningful way."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Randall Collins |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2019-05-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0231549784 |
The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.
| Author | : Timothy Sandefur |
| Publisher | : Encounter Books |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2016-09-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1594038406 |
Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised “freedoms” to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must ask permission from them. Sadly, today’s increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where our freedoms—the right to speak freely, to earn a living, to own a gun, to use private property, even the right to take medicine to save one’s own life—are again treated as privileges the government may grant or withhold at will. Timothy Sandefur examines the history of the distinction between rights and privileges that played such an important role in the American experiment, and how we can fight to retain our freedoms against the growing power of government. Illustrated with dozens of real-life examples—including many cases he litigated himself—Sandefur shows how treating freedoms as government-created privileges undermines our Constitution and betrays the basic principles of human dignity.
