Linda M. Lobao & Gregory Hooks 
The Sociology of Spatial Inequality [PDF ebook] 

2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title



Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality. This book showcases a recent generation of inquiry that attends to poverty, prosperity, and power across a range of territories and their populations within the United States, addressing spatial inequality as a thematically distinct body of work that spans sociological research traditions. The contributors‘ various perspectives offer an agenda for future action to bridge sociology’s diverse and often narrowly focused spatial and inequality traditions.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments



1. Introduction: Advancing the Sociology of Spatial Inequality


Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks,
and Ann R. Tickamyer




PART I EXTENDING THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION ACROSS SPACE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES



2. Advancing the Sociology of Spatial Inequality: Spaces, Places, and the Subnational Scale


Linda M. Lobao and Gregory Hooks



3. New and Unexplored Opportunities: Developing a Spatial Perspective for Political Sociology


Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins



4. Territories of Inequality: An Essay on the Measurement and Analysis of Inequality in Grounded Place Settings


Michael D. Irwin



PART II STUDIES OF SPATIAL INEQUALITY



5. The Spatial Politics of Public Policy: Devolution, Development, and Welfare Reform


Ann R. Tickamyer, Julie Anne White,
Barry L. Tadlock, and Debra A. Henderson



6. Differential Mortality across the United States: The Influence of Place-Based Inequality 


Diane K. Mc Laughlin, C. Shannon Stokes,
P. Johnelle Smith, and Atsuko Nonoyama



7. Placing Family Poverty in Area Contexts: The Use of Multilevel Models in Spatial Research


David A. Cotter, Joan M. Hermsen,
and Reeve Vanneman



8. Adios Aztlan: Mexican American Out-Migration from the Southwest


Rogelio Saenz, Cynthia M. Cready,
and Maria Cristina Morales



9. A Spatial Analysis of the Urban Landscape: What Accounts for Differences across Neighborhoods?


Deirdre A. Oakley and John R. Logan


PART III THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPATIAL INEQUALITY: TOWARD A COMMON VISION



10.Space for Social Inequality Researchers: A View from Geography


Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. and John Paul Jones III



11. Conclusion: Agenda for Moving a Spatial Sociology Forward


Gregory Hooks, Linda M. Lobao,
and Ann R. Tickamyer



About the Editors and Contributors

Index

Über den Autor

M. Lobao is Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Geography at the Ohio State University. She is the author of
Locality and Inequality: Farm and Industry Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions, also published by SUNY Press, and coauthor (with Paul Lasly, F. Larry Leistritz, and Katherine Meyer) of
Beyond the Amber Waves of Grain: An Examination of Social and Economic Restructuring in the Heartland.
Gregory Hooks is Profebssor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. He is the author of
Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II’s Battle of the Potomac.
Ann R. Tickamyer is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. She is coeditor (with William W. Falk and Michael D. Schulman) of
Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts.