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Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the pervasiveness and extensiveness of social inequality in the United States within a comparative context, to show how Inequality occurs, how it affects all of us, and what is being done about it. This edition benefits from a variety of changes that have significantly strengthened...

Defending the melting-pot theory against the ethnic pluralists who have come forth to debunk it since the early 1960s, Steinberg integrates existing criticism and summarizes the economic forces that shaped the development of America's ethnic groups. He explains the complexities of race, class and ethnicity in America.

"A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the populist left and right offers a searing indictment of the managerial elite. Mainstream politicians and pundits explain today's populist unrest as a simple divide between "winners" and "losers." They recognize that globalization has created massive inequalities, but these are inevitable, they say--and the best we can do is throw a sop to the "deplorables" to keep them from revolting. But what...

This volume explores how the media (reality shows, sitcoms, television series), represent the major social classes in the United States. The author argues that the media is responsible for "misrepresenting" social class in American society. She maintains that the media puts more emphasis on being rich and famous, rather than realistically portraying the working class as contributors to the success of America. She points out how the media creates the...

"In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption--like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing...

This volume examines the widely perceived growing income inequality in the U.S. The author provides an explanation of the problems of economic classes and economic power in society. He demonstrates how economic thinking can function as a useful analytical and methodological tool in social research, policy making, and society in general, especially in understanding the impacts of power, class and inequality. The author shows why income inequality has...

"Social class is a powerful contributor to physical, social, and mental well-being. Psychology and Economic Injustice: Personal, Professional, and Political Intersections, which is part of a series on critical social issues addressed by psychologists empirically, politically, and in clinical practice, blends the personal experiences of feminist psychologists with empirical data. It argues persuasively for examining the relationship between economic...

"To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, author Anne E. Duggan examines Jacques Demy's queer sensibility in connection with another understudied characteristic of his oeuvre: his recurrent use of the fairy...

"This single volume work examines whether class political divisions have increased or decreased over time in America. Most studies have concluded that class differences have declined, and that Democrats have alienated their electoral base - the working class. However, counter to these scholarly and pundit mainstream beliefs, in Class and Party in American Politics Jeffrey M. Stonecash shows that the less affluent now give higher levels of support...