The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. Gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities. Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading.

Mary Romero is Professor at Arizona State University and the 2004 recipient of the Lee Founders Award given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is currently co-chair elect of LatCrit Inc. She is the author of Maid in the USA (1992) and her coedited books include Challenging Fronteras (1997), Women’s Untold Stories (1999), and Latina and Latino Popular Culture (2002).

Eric Margolis is Associate Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University. His recent publications include: AIDS Research/AIDS Policy: Competing Paradigms of Science and Public Policy, Researchin Social Policy, Volume 6 (1998), and The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (2001).

List of Figures

viii

List of Tables

ix

Notes on Contributors

x

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction

1

(12)

PART I. CONCEPTUALIZING INEQUALITIES

13

(102)

Historical Perspectives on Inequality

15

(16)

Charles Tilly

Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization?

31

(19)

Ronaldo Munck

Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition

50

(25)

Sallie Westwood

Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World

75

(25)

Ken Plummer

Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity

100

(15)

Barry D. Adam

PART II. EPISTEMOLOGY, METHOD, AND INEQUALITY

115

(96)

Conceptualizing a Critical Race Theory in Sociology

117

(30)

Tara J. Yosso

Daniel G. Solorzano

Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World

147

(18)

David Naguib Pellow

Labor-market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class

165

(25)

Irene Browne

Joya Misra

What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness

190

(21)

Malcolm Williams

PART III. FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND EDUCATION

211

(114)

Children and Inequality

213

(25)

Julia Wrigley

Joanna Dreby

Parenting and Inequality

238

(19)

Rachel Grob

Barbara Katz Rothman

Migrant Networks: a Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration

257

(29)

Steven J. Gold

Race, Education, and Inequality

286

(39)

Caroline Hodges Persell

Giselle F. Hendrie

PART IV. POLICY RESPONSES TO INEQUALITIES

325

(142)

Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality

327

(23)

Lynne Haney

Robin Rogers-Dillon

Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship

350

(22)

Nigel South

Disability and Social Inequalities

372

(24)

Mark Priestley

The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare

396

(28)

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Cara James

Byron J. Good

Anne E. Becker

The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa

424

(17)

Claudia Bell

Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population Politics, and NGOs

441

(26)

Tulsi Patel

Navtej Purewal

PART V. MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, AND INEQUALITIES

467

(126)

Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes

469

(33)

Norman K. Denzin

In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and National Identities in the Era of Globalization

502

(21)

Chris Barker

Minding the Cyber-gap: the Internet and Social Inequality

523

(23)

Wenhong Chen

Barry Wellman

New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and Social Inequality

546

(47)

Stephen Pfohl

Index

593

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