David Grusky - The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

The Inequality Reader

SECOND EDITION

The Inequality Reader

Contemporary and Foundational Readings in

Race, Class, and Gender

Edited by

David B. Grusky
Szonja Szelnyi

First published 2011 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge

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The inequality reader : contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender / edited by David B. Grusky, Szonja Szelnyi.2nd ed.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8133-4484-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Equality. 2. Social stratification. 3. Social classes. 4. Race. 5. Sex role. I. Grusky, David B. II. Szelnyi, Szonja, 1960

HM821.I54 2011

305.01dc22

2010044319

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-4484-3 (pbk)

To Robert M. Hauser
in the year of his retirement

Contents

Part I
Introduction

David B. Grusky

Part II
Does Inequality Serve a Purpose?

Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore

Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martn Snchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss

Alan B. Krueger

Part III
The Structure of Social Inequality

Karl Marx

Erik Olin Wright

Max Weber

Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe
Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?
Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Friendship

Emmanuel Saez
Striking It Richer
The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden

Part IV
Inequality at the Extremes

C. Wright Mills

G. William Domhoff
Who Rules America?
Power and Politics

Alvin W. Gouldner

David Brooks
Bobos in Paradise
The New Upper Class and How They Got There

Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel-and-Dimed
On (not) Getting by in America

Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen
The Missing Class
Portraits of the Near Poor in America

Timothy M. Smeeding
Poorer by Comparison
Poverty, Work, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

William Julius Wilson
Jobless Poverty
A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto

Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
American Apartheid
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

Anne R. Pebley and Narayan Sastry

Sharon Hays
Flat Broke with Children
Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

Bruce Western

Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum
Escaping Poverty
Can Housing Vouchers Help?

Part V
Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Racial Formation in the United States
From the 1960s to the 1990s

Reynolds Farley
Racial Identities in 2000
The Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option

Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou
The New Second Generation
Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants

Mary C. Waters
Black Identities
West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

Devah Pager
Marked
Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

Joe R. Feagin
The Continuing Significance of Race
Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places

Claude Steele

William Julius Wilson
The Declining Significance of Race
Blacks and Changing American Institutions

Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
Black Wealth/White Wealth
A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

Herbert J. Gans

Lawrence Bobo

Part VI
Gender Inequality

Judith Lorber

Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Time Bind
When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

Lisa Belkin

Pamela Stone
Getting to Equal
Progress, Pitfalls, and Policy Solutions on the Road to Gender Parity in the Workplace

Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson
The Time Divide
Work, Family, and Gender Inequality

Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse
Orchestrating Impartiality
The Impact of Blind Auditions on Female Musicians

Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik
Getting a Job
Is There a Motherhood Penalty?

Barbara F. Reskin

Maria Charles and David B. Grusky

Jerry A. Jacobs
Detours on the Road to Equality
Women, Work, and Higher Education

Trond Petersen and Laurie A. Morgan

Paula England

Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
The Gender Pay Gap
Have Women Gone as Far as They Can?

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Part VII
Generating Inequality

Timothy Egan

Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Mller, and Reinhard Pollak
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment
Evidence from Eight European Countries

David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser

Richard Breen

Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, and Reinhard Pollak

Gregory Acs and Seth Zimmerman
Like Watching Grass Grow?
Assessing Changes in U.S. IntragenerationalEconomic Mobility over the Past Two Decades

Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan, with the collaboration of Andrea Tyree

David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer

William H. Sewell, Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes

Jay MacLeod
Aint No Makin It
Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood

Dalton Conley
The Pecking Order
Which Siblings Succeed and Why

Mark S. Granovetter

Nan Lin

Ronald S. Burt

Roberto M. Fernandez and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo

Part VIII
The Consequences of Inequality

Janny Scott

John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert, and Barbara Wolfe

Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe

Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life

Eszter Hargittai

Part IX
Globalization and Inequality

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Glenn Firebaugh