Social Inequality in a Global Age

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1. ROOTS OF INEQUALITY
	1. The Great Debate
		The Historical Debate
			Arguments From the Ancients
			The Challenge From New Faiths
			The Social Contract
		The Sociological Debate
			Karl Marx and Class Conflict
			Max Weber and Life Chances
			Emile Durkheim and the Search for Order
			Conflict and Functionalist Approaches to the Debate
			Moving Beyond the Debate: A New Synthesis
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	2. The Global Divide: Inequality Across Societies
		Worlds Coming Apart and Coming Together
		The Double Divide
			The Gap Between Nations
			The Gap Within Nations
		The Global Debate
			Modernization
			Dependency
			Neoliberalism
			World Systems
		Globalization: The Ties That Bind
		Immigration: Seeking to Cross the Divide
		The Market Paradox
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
		PHOTO ESSAY: Honduras
PART II. DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY
	3. The Gordian Knot of Race, Class, and Gender
		Dimensions of an Unequal World
		Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
		The Development of Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender Across Societies
			Hunting and Gathering Societies
			Horticultural and Herding Societies
			Agrarian Societies
			Life on the Edge: Frontiers and Ports
			Industrial Societies
		The Coming of Postindustrial Society
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	4. Class Privilege
		Wealth and Property
		Occupation
		Income
		Class Structure
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	5. Race and Class
		A Debt Unpaid: Internal Colonialism
			Native Americans
			African Americans
			Hispanic Americans
			Irish Americans and New European Groups
		Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Solidarity
		The Analytic Debate. Cultures and Structures of Poverty
		Colorful Language
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
		PHOTO ESSAY: Navajoland
	6. Gender and Class
		When Men Were Men
			Masculinity as Privilege
			Masculinity as Vulnerability: The Harder They Fall
		From Glass Slippers to Glass Ceilings
			You\'ve Come a Long Way, Maybe
			Closing the Gaps
		Work and Family: The Double Burden and the Second Shift
		Gender and Class Around the World
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	7. Status Prestige
		The Quest for Honor
		Socialization: Acquiring Marks of Distinction
		Association: Whom You Know and What You Know About Whom You Know
		Lifestyles of the Rich and the Destitute
			Residence
			Fashion
			Transportation and Leisure
		Tastes in Transition
			Meet the Bobos
			The Millionaires Next Door
			The Overspent American
			Communities of Recognition
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	8. Power and Politics
		People Power and Powerful People
			Class Consciousness
			Black Power?
			Brown Power?
			The Gender Gap
			Religion, Region, and Values
			The Politics of Economic Crisis
		Who Rules? The Power Elite Debate
		Changing the Rules: Campaign Finance Reform
		Global Power: Who Really Rules?
		Monopoly Power
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
PART III. CHALLENGES OF INEQUALITY
	9. Moving Up: Education and Mobility
		Getting Ahead
			Social Mobility and Social Reproduction
			Status Attainment
		Education: Opening Doors, Opening Minds
			Educational Access and Success
			Unequal Education and \"Savage Inequalities
		No Child Left Behind
		Ladders With Broken Rungs
			Raising the Bar: Human Capital and Gatekeeping
			On Track, Off Track, Dead in Your Tracks
			Clearing the Bar: Career Trajectories
			Blocked Opportunity: \"Ain\'t No Makin\' It
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	10. Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place
		Urban Poverty: Abandoned Spaces
		Deindustrialization and the Changing Metropolis
		The Making and Unmaking of the Postindustrial City
		Brain-Gain and Brain-Drain Cities
		Suburban Poverty: The Urban Fringe
		Rural Poverty: Forgotten Places
			The Black Belt
			American Highlands
			The Barrio Border and the Rural Southwest
			The Central Plains
		Poverty in the Global Ghetto
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
		PHOTO ESSAY: Deindustrialization
	11. Reversing the Race to the Bottom: Poverty and Policy
		From Welfare to Work
		The Challenge of the Margins: Antipoverty Programs
			The New Deal
			The War on Poverty
			The War on Welfare
			The Return of Welfare Reform
			Health Care Reform
		Extreme Poverty: Homelessness and Hunger
			Problems of Extreme Poverty
			Fraying in the Safety Net
			Homelessness
			Hunger
		Poverty Programs Among Advanced Industrial Nations
		The Private World of Poverty
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
	12. Challenging the System: The Globalization of Race, Class, and Gender
		The Enduring Struggle: The Labor Movement
		No Sweat: International Labor and Consumer Activism
		Gender and Power: The Women\'s Movement
		Race and Power: The Civil Rights Movement
		No Dumping: The Environmental Justice Movement
		The Happiest Place on Earth
		One World After All
		Key Points
		For Review and Discussion
		Making Connections
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author