"With income inequality on the rise and the ongoing economic downturn, the causes, consequences, and politics of inequality are undergoing a fundamental transformation. Updated and highly accessible, the fourth edition of Social Stratification provides refreshing take on existin…
Case study of village social structures among the fulbe tribal peoples illustrating the changing role and social status of peasants in Guinea - examines the social stratification associated with fulbe traditional culture and the advent of profound social change, including the ab…
Compilation of readings on the sociology of class stratification, social status and social structure - covers distributive and relational aspects of social inequality, and forms of discrimination and intergroup relations arising therefrom. Annotated bibliography pp. 381 to 384, …
This volume presents cutting-edge thinking & research on linkages among SES, parenting & child development. The authors represent an array of different disciplines, & they approach the issues of SES parenting & child dev. from a variety of perspectives. &
This volume presents cutting-edge thinking & research on linkages among SES, parenting & child development. The authors represent an array of different disciplines, & they approach the issues of SES parenting & child dev. from a variety of perspectives. &
"This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge cu…
This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge cur…
This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge cur…
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratifi…
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society : people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were bein…
