Generating Social Stratification
Subtitle: Toward a New Research Agenda (Westview Series on Social Inequality)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc); Westview Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780813389677
Subjects: Social classes; Sociology; Social Stratification; Sociology Of Education; United States; Students & Student Life; General; Poverty; Academic achievement; Social conditions; Social mobility; Students
Description: In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the United States present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this volume work toward the goal of identifying and assessing the processes by which a birth cohort is distributed in the stratification system, given its position of origin in that system.

Alan Kerckhoff's introduction situates the studies in this volume within the context of previous stratification research over several generations, making the book an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students.