Social Stratification
Subtitle: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective
Contributors: Manwai C. Ku (Collaborator); Szonja Szelenyi (Collaborator); David B. Grusky (Editor)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1082
ISBN-13: 9780813343730
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Gender studies; Social classes; Sociology (Specific Aspects); Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - General; Equality; Social Stratification; Social status
First sentence: In advanced industrial societies, much rhetoric and social policy have been directed against economic and social inequality, yet despite such efforts the brute facts of poverty and massive inequality are still everywhere with us.