Analyzing inequality
Subtitle: life chances and social mobility in comparative perspective
By: edited by Stefan Svallfors.
Contributors: Svallfors, Stefan.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Equality.; Social mobility.
Description: "Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new instruments that make inequality research possible; new ways of thinking and explaining; and empirical findings or important contributions of rigorous empirical research to our understanding." "The chapters, each written by a distinguished social scientist, are of interest to both scholars and students. This is the only book to date to take stock of the state of the art in stratification research, examining data, methods, theory, and new empirical findings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life courses and life chances in a comparative perspective / Karl Ulrich Mayer; title: Progress in sociology / John H. Goldthorpe; title: Social indicators, policy, and measuring progress / A.B. Atkinson; title: Family structure, gender roles, and social inequality / Annemette Sørensen; title: Inequalities in later life / Sara Arber.