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Inequality

Social Class and Its Consequences

Stanley D. Eitzen Janis E. Johnston

$41.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2007
ISBN: 9781594513589

304 Pages

Distributed for Paradigm Publishers

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About the Book

This book offers an up-to-date portrait of the realities of social class and its consequences in the United States today, focusing on the increasing inequality gap; the shrinking middle class; the myth and realities of social mobility; the consequences of class for work, health care, education, the justice system, war, and the environment; and progressive solutions for reducing inequality and improving human life.

About the Author(s)

D. Stanley Eitzen is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Colorado State University. His most recent book is Solutions to Social Problems from the Top Down: The Role of Government (Allyn & Bacon 2006), coauthored with George H. Sage.
Janis E. Johnston received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University, where she is currently an adjunct instructor. She has published several articles in the area of permutation statistics.

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction.

Part I: Dimentions of Social Stratification.

Chapter 1: Social Class in America.
1. Shadowy Lines That Still Divide - Janny Scott and David Leonhardt. 2. A Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Working Class - Michael D. Yates. 3. The Other America: An Enduring Shame - Jonathan Alter.

Chapter 2: The Inequality Gap.
4. Tilting the Tax System in Favor of the Rich - The New York Times. 5. Income and Inequality: Millions Left Behind - Woodrow Ginsberg. 6. The Perks of Privilege - Clara Jeffery.

Chapter 3: The Disappearing Middle.
7. Our Society's Middle Is Shrinking from View - Louise Auerhahn. 8. The Vanishing Middle-Class Job: As Income Gap Widens, Uncertainty Spreads - Griff Witte.

Chapter 4: Social Mobility.
9. The Death of Horatio Alger: Our Political Leaders Are Doing Everything They Can to Fortify Class Inequality - Paul Krugman. 10. Rags to Riches? The American Dream Is Less Common in the United States Than Elsewhere - Bernard Wasow.

Part II: The Consequences of Class

Chapter 5: Work.
11. Still Not Getting By in Bush's America - Joel Wendland. 12. America's Low-Wage Workers: The Demography of a Caste - Beth Shulman.

Chapter 6: Health Care.
13. As the Rich Get Richer, Do People Get Sicker? Researchers Debate Whether Income Inequality Impairs Public Health - Lila Guterman. 14. Sick of Poverty - Robert Sapolsky.

Chapter 7: Education.
15. A Wider Lens on the Black-White Achievement Gap - Richard Rothstein. 16. Does Meritocracy Work? - Ross Douthat.

Chapter 8: Justice and Injustice.
17. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison - Jeffrey Reiman. 18. Poverty and Violent Crime - Elliott Currie. 19. The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Social Class Exclusion - Janis E. Johnston.

Chapter 9: Natural Disasters.
20.Dying Alone: An Interview with Eric Klinenberg - University of Chicago Press. 21. The Nation: Cast Away: Broken Levees, Unbroken Barriers - Jason DeParle. 22. New Orleans by the Numbers - Peter Wagner and Susan Edwards.

Chapter 10: Unequal Sacrifice in War.
23. Sacrifices of War Remain Unshared - Chuck Raasch. 24. Their Last Resort - Ann Scott Tyson.

Chapter 11: Environmental Classism.
25. Bioethics, Social Class, and the Sociological Imagination - Leigh Turner. 26. Poverty and Pollution in the United States - Robert D. Bullard.

Part III: Reducing Inequality.

Chapter 12: Progressive Solutions for Reducing Inequality.
27. Narrowing the Income Gap Between Rich and Poor - Michael Hout and Samuel R. Lucas. 28. Millenium Development Goals for Children in the United States to Be Achieved by 2015 - Children's Defense Fund. 29. Taxing Concentrated Wealth to Broaden the American Dream: Good Policy, Good Politics, Good for America - Dedrick Muhammad and Chuck Collins.

Websites. Credits. Index. About the Editors.

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