[PDF] Stratification eBook

Author : Yossi Shavit
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2007-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804768146

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The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, assess the links between this expansion and inequality in the national context. Contrary to most expectations, the authors show that as access to higher education expands, all social classes benefit. Neither greater diversification nor privatization in higher education results in greater inequality. In some cases, especially where the most advantaged already have significant access to higher education, opportunities increase most for persons from disadvantaged origins. Also, during the late twentieth century, opportunities for women increased faster than those for men. Offering a new spin on conventional wisdom, this book shows how all social classes benefit from the expansion of higher education.

Author : Rhonda F. Levine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780742546325

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Bringing together various statements on social stratification, this collection offers contributions to debates on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality.

Author : Leonard Beeghley
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social classes
ISBN : 9780205530526

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This text examines the structure of stratification in the United States, focusing on the way one's class location influences his or her life opportunities. Beeghley uses three themes to illustrate social stratification: How power influences the distribution of resources in the United States; how social structure influences rates of events; and how social psychological factors influence how individuals act on, and react to, the situations in which they find themselves.

Author : Andrea Flynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110841754X

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This book explores the racial rules that are often hidden but perpetuate vast racial inequities in the United States.

Author : Rosemary Crompton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745699030

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Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so important to understand class and stratification, and how the tools used to analyse these divisions can help us to understand and confront problems of inequality. This third edition of Class and Stratification has been extensively revised, expanded and updated, incorporating discussions of contemporary economic and social change. It includes discussions of political and economic neoliberalism and its impacts as well as developments in social theory, such as the emphasis on 'individualization' and the 'cultural turn'. New to this edition is a chapter focusing on 'cultural' approaches to class analysis, which together with established approaches are used to explore new developments in social mobility, educational opportunity, and social polarization. The book will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences seeking to understand the changing face of social inequality. By highlighting the damage increasing inequality is causing to the social fabric, the book reveals the important part class continues to play in our lives today.

Author : Nancy Tague
Publisher : Quality Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2004-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1953079008

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The Quality Toolbox is a comprehensive reference to a variety of methods and techniques: those most commonly used for quality improvement, many less commonly used, and some created by the author and not available elsewhere. The reader will find the widely used seven basic quality control tools (for example, fishbone diagram, and Pareto chart) as well as the newer management and planning tools. Tools are included for generating and organizing ideas, evaluating ideas, analyzing processes, determining root causes, planning, and basic data-handling and statistics. The book is written and organized to be as simple as possible to use so that anyone can find and learn new tools without a teacher. Above all, this is an instruction book. The reader can learn new tools or, for familiar tools, discover new variations or applications. It also is a reference book, organized so that a half-remembered tool can be found and reviewed easily, and the right tool to solve a particular problem or achieve a specific goal can be quickly identified. With this book close at hand, a quality improvement team becomes capable of more efficient and effective work with less assistance from a trained quality consultant. Quality and training professionals also will find it a handy reference and quick way to expand their repertoire of tools, techniques, applications, and tricks. For this second edition, Tague added 34 tools and 18 variations. The "Quality Improvement Stories" chapter has been expanded to include detailed case studies from three Baldrige Award winners. An entirely new chapter, "Mega-Tools: Quality Management Systems," puts the tools into two contexts: the historical evolution of quality improvement and the quality management systems within which the tools are used. This edition liberally uses icons with each tool description to reinforce for the reader what kind of tool it is and where it is used within the improvement process.

Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108491995

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Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.

Author : Wendy Bottero
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social classes
ISBN : 9780415281799

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This book offers an exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, looking at how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference.

Author : Stephen J. Rose
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1620977648

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The must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom Generations of teachers, union organizers, and activists have relied on this book-and-poster set, originally published in 1979, to illustrate the magnitude of America’s growing economic divide. Today, income inequality is at an all-time high, and this completely updated eighth edition, drawn from the 2020 Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census, brings together fresh primary data to provide a clear picture of the U.S. social structure and the considerable demographic and economic changes of the past four decades. Folded inside the companion booklet, the removable poster depicts color-coded figures that make it possible to compare social groups at a glance and to understand how income distribution relates to race, sex, education, and occupation. With charts and careful explanations, the booklet contextualizes and expands on the poster. Rose’s graphic depiction of the census data makes clear at a glance complex concepts, including the way recent economic growth has been skewed toward the wealthiest households, that a gender gap persists in the workplace, and that, on average, African Americans and Latinos still earn far less than other Americans. This new edition of a uniquely visual depiction of American society will be an essential resource and a touchstone for the current debates over education, inequality, poverty, and jobs in our country.

Author : Wendy Bottero
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415281782

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This book offers an exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, looking at how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference.