Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective

Av Devine, Waters, Fiona Devine, Mary C. Waters

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Beskrivning

This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the world have contributed to this exciting and rigorous volume, drawing upon their own research in the fields of race and ethnicity, class and inequality, and gender and sexuality. Contains original essays by first-rate scholars on issues of social inequalities around the worldFeatures research and examples from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Portugal, Finland, and JapanReviews research on issues of social inequalities from the fields of race, class, and genderReflects on methodological issues and the strengths of qualitative researchProvides students with an important overview of the development of social stratification studies

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2003-12-09
Mått: 161 x 236 x 29 mm
Vikt: 624 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 330
Förlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 9780631226840

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Sociala grupper och identitet

Mer information

Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Affluent Workers Revisited (1992), Social Class in America and Britain (1997), and Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs (2003). She is the co-author, with Sue Heath, of Sociological Research Methods in Context (1999).Mary C. Waters is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Harvard University, and co-director of The New York Second Generation Project. Her publications include Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America, (1990); the award-winning Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (1999); The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multi-Racial Individuals (with Joel Perlmann, 2002); and The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (with Peggy Levitt, 2002). Professor Waters was a Guggenheim Fellow (1993-94) and a Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage (1991-92).

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"Extremely worthwhile in conception, and in parts excellent and interesting." Ethnic and Racial Studies "This book makes fascinating reading and is a valuable educational, research and methodological resource." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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