Mobility and Inequality

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors... Lees meer

Snap Matters

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, ... Lees meer

Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more ... Lees meer

Broke and Patriotic

Francesco Duina

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the Americ... Lees meer

Mobility and Inequality

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors... Lees meer

Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, s... Lees meer

Broke

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushe... Lees meer

Gendered Trajectories

Wei-Hsin Yu

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employ... Lees meer

Occupational Ghettos

Maria Charles, David B Grusky

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowi... Lees meer

Snap Matters

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, ... Lees meer

Income Inequality

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizen... Lees meer

Broke and Patriotic

Francesco Duina

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the Americ... Lees meer

Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more ... Lees meer

Analyzing Inequality

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national co... Lees meer

Determined to Succeed?

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The pres... Lees meer

Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, s... Lees meer

Poverty and Inequality

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• This volume brings together leading public intellectuals--Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey,... Lees meer

On the Edge of Commitment

Stephen Morgan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamen... Lees meer

The Political Sociology of the Welfare State

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• A comparative analysis of the political attitudes, values, aspirations, and identities of citizens in advanced industrial societies, this book focuses... Lees meer

After the Fall of the Wall

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition... Lees meer

Womenas Working Lives in East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Inequality
• One of the most dramatic economic changes of the past century has been the increase in married women's work outside the home. This volume examines the... Lees meer

Contested Welfare States

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• The welfare state is a trademark of the European social model. An extensive set of social and institutional actors provides protection against common ... Lees meer

Class and Power in the New Deal

G William Domhoff, Michael J Webber

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• Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during ... Lees meer

The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization

Susan Olzak

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• This book tests a new approach to understanding ethnic mobilization and considers the interplay of global forces, national-level variation in inequali... Lees meer