Social Class: How Does It Work?

Title Page, Copyright
Contents
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Part I: Conceptions of Social Class
Introduction: Taking Stock of Class
Chapter 1: How Class Works: Objective and Subjective Aspects of Class Since the 1970s
Chapter 2: Are There Social Classes? A Framework for Testing Sociology’s Favorite Concept
Part II: Social Class in Daily Life: How Does it Work?
Chapter 3: Education-Based Meritocracy: The Barriers to Its Realization
Chapter 4: Class and the Transition to Adulthood
Chapter 5: Breaking the Class Monolith: Understanding Class Differences in Black Adolescents’ Attachment to Racial Identity
Chapter 6: Bringing Sibling Differences In: Enlarging Our Understanding of the Transmission of Advantage in Families
Chapter 7: Class and Politics
Chapter 8: Social Inequality and Health: Future Directions for the Fundamental Cause Explanation
Chapter 9: Race, Class, and Neighborhoods
Chapter 10: What Does Class Inequality Among Women Look Like? A Comparison with Men and Families, 1970 to 2000
Part III: Reflections on Class
Chapter 11: Logics of Class Analysis
Chapter 12: Two Oppositions in Studies of Class: A Reflection
Chapter 13: Reflection on “Class Matters”
Chapter 14: Class Notes
Chapter 15: Holding Up a Mirror to a Classless Society
Chapter 16: Reading Class Between the Lines(of This Volume): A Reflection on Why We Should Stick to Folk Concepts of Social Class
Index