Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class and Gender [with MySearchLab Access Code]

by Robert A. Rothman Professor Emeritus

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself--including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this guide provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender-explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality. Its straightforward perspective views the considerations of race and gender as central to a full appreciation of the composition and dynamics of class systems. A significant and effective organization incorporates fresh conceptualizations, new research findings, and census data, with the fundamentals of social stratification. Five-part organization: "Part I" gives a broad overview and introduction to the field; "Part II" provides an expanded discussion of the evolution and institutionalization of industrial class systems; "Part III" covers the basic elements of inequality: economics, prestige, and politics; "Part Four" includes separate chapters on life chances and lifestyles as well as class consciousness; and "Part V" offers an exploration of social mobility. As a useful reference for professionals in the fields of sociology, social problems, or race and minorities/gender. For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies.

Genres: Social Justice

278 pages, Paperback

Published January 17, 2009

Reviews

[Alexandra Silverstein · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Social status refers to collective subjective evaluations of groups by other members of that society using contemporary standards, values, and beliefs” (Rothman, 2005:120)
The quintessential book text for any sociology major. In this day and age we speak of many topics as a race war, without adressing the class struggle. You must know Weber, Marx and Dubois and their ideas of functionalism, allienation, exploitation, double consciousness, anomie, the unstoppable nature of a beaucracy etc. I wish it went into more detail of Kaunt's teachings.