Inequality : social class and its consequences /: social class and its consequences. (2015)
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- Book
- Title:
- Inequality : social class and its consequences /: social class and its consequences. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Inequality : social class and its consequences
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by D. Stanley Eitzen and Janis E. Johnston.
- Other Names:
- Eitzen, D. Stanley
Johnston, Janis E, 1957- - Contents:
- Pt. I. Dimensions of social stratification. Shadowy lines that still divide / Janny Scott and David Leonhardt ; A statistical portrait of the U.S. working class / Michael D. Yates ; The other America: an enduring shame / Jonathan Alter ; Tilting the tax system in favor of the rich / The New York Times ; Income and inequality: millions left behind / Woodrow Ginsberg ; The perks of privilege / Clara Jeffrey ; Our society's middle is shrinking from view / Louise Auerhahn ; The vanishing middle class job: as income gap widens, uncertainty spreads / Griff Witte ; The death of Horatio Alger: our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality / Paul Krugman ; Rags to riches?: the American dream is less common in the United States than elsewhere / Bernard Wasow -- pt. II. The consequences of class. Still not getting by in Bush's America / Joel Wendland ; America's low-wage workers: the demography of a caste / Beth Shulman ; As the rich get richer, do people get sicker?: researchers debate whether income inequality impairs public health / Lila Gutterman ; Sick of poverty / Robert Sapolsky ; A wider lens on the black-white achievement gap / Richard Rothstein ; Does meritocracy work? / Ross Douthat ; The rich get richer and the poor get prison / Jeffrey Reiman ; Poverty and violent crime / Elliott Currie ; The Civil Rights Act of 1964: the social class exclusion / Janis Johnston ; Dying alone: an interview with Eric Klinenberg / University of Chicago PressPt. I. Dimensions of social stratification. Shadowy lines that still divide / Janny Scott and David Leonhardt ; A statistical portrait of the U.S. working class / Michael D. Yates ; The other America: an enduring shame / Jonathan Alter ; Tilting the tax system in favor of the rich / The New York Times ; Income and inequality: millions left behind / Woodrow Ginsberg ; The perks of privilege / Clara Jeffrey ; Our society's middle is shrinking from view / Louise Auerhahn ; The vanishing middle class job: as income gap widens, uncertainty spreads / Griff Witte ; The death of Horatio Alger: our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality / Paul Krugman ; Rags to riches?: the American dream is less common in the United States than elsewhere / Bernard Wasow -- pt. II. The consequences of class. Still not getting by in Bush's America / Joel Wendland ; America's low-wage workers: the demography of a caste / Beth Shulman ; As the rich get richer, do people get sicker?: researchers debate whether income inequality impairs public health / Lila Gutterman ; Sick of poverty / Robert Sapolsky ; A wider lens on the black-white achievement gap / Richard Rothstein ; Does meritocracy work? / Ross Douthat ; The rich get richer and the poor get prison / Jeffrey Reiman ; Poverty and violent crime / Elliott Currie ; The Civil Rights Act of 1964: the social class exclusion / Janis Johnston ; Dying alone: an interview with Eric Klinenberg / University of Chicago Press ; Cast away: broken levees, unbroken barriers / Jason DeParle ; New Orleans by the numbers / Peter Wagner and Susan Edwards ; Sacrifices of war remain unshared / Chuck Raasch ; Their last resort / Ann Scott Tyson ; Bioethics, social class, and the sociological imagination / Leigh Turner ; Poverty and pollution in the United States / Robert D. Bullard -- pt. III. Reducing inequality. Narrowing the income gap between rich and poor / Michael Hout and Samuel R. Lucas ; Millennium development goals for children in the United States to be achieved by 2015 / Children's Defense Fund ; Taxing concentrated wealth to broaden the American dream: good policy, good politics, good for America / Dedrick Muhammad and Chuck Collins. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Place of publication not identified : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Subjects:
- 305.50973
Social classes -- United States
Equality -- United States
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781317257578
- Related ISBNs:
- 131725757X
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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