Spheres of influence
Subtitle: the social ecology of racial and class inequality
By: Douglas S. Massey and Stefanie Brodmann
Contributors: Brodmann, Stefanie
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780871546432; 9781610448222
Subjects: Equality; Race; Social classes
Description: The black-white divide has long haunted the United States as a driving force behind social inequality. Yet, the civil rights movement, the increase in immigration, and the restructuring of the economy in favor of the rich over the last several decades have begun to alter to contours of inequality. Spheres of Influence presents a rigorous new study of the intersections of racial and class disparities today. By advancing an ecological model of human development that considers the dynamics of race and class across multiple social spheres, Spheres of Influence sheds important light on the factors that are currently driving inequality today. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The social ecology of human development; title: Divergent family spheres; title: Other spheres of influence; title: Risky reproduction; title: Ecology under the skin; title: Human capital formation; title: Crime and delinquency; title: Transitions to adulthood; title: What if? a counterfactual analysis; title: The ecology of inequality.