Mary Romero & Eric Margolis 
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities [PDF ebook] 

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.

विषयसूची

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Conceptualizing Inequalities:.

1. Historical Perspectives on Inequality: Charles Tilly
(Columbia University).

2. Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of
Globalization?: Ronaldo Munck (University of Liverpool).

3. Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of
Recognition: Sallie Westwood (University of Manchester).

4. Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World: Ken Plummer
(University of Essex).

5. Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity: Barry D. Adam
(University of Windsor).

Part II: Epistemology, Method, and Inequality:.

6. Conceptualizing a Critical Race Theory in Sociology: Tara J.
Yosso (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Daniel G.
Solórzano (University of California, Los Angeles).

7. Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World: David
Pellow (University of California, San Diego).

8. Labor-market Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Race, and
Class: Irene Browne (Emory University) and Joya Misra (University
of Massachusetts-Amherst).

9. What Counts? Definition, Measurement, and Legitimacy in
Studies of Homelessness: Malcolm Williams (University of
Plymouth).

Part III: Family, Community, and Education:.

10. Children and Inequality: Julia Wrigley and Joanna Dreby
(both City University of New York).

11. Parenting and Inequality: Rachel Grob (Sarah Lawrence
College) and Barbara Katz Rothman (City University of New
York).

12. Migrant Networks: A Summary and Critique of Relational
Approaches to International Migration: Steven J. Gold (Michigan
State University).

13. Race, Education, and Inequality: Caroline Hodges Persell and
Giselle F. Hendrie (both New York University).

Part IV: Policy Responses to Inequalities:.

14. Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of
Social Inequality: Lynne Haney (New York University) and Robin
Rogers-Dillon (City University of New York).

15. Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship: Nigel South
(University of Essex).

16. Disability and Social Inequalities: Mark Priestley
(University of Leeds).

17. Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class
Disparities in Healthcare: Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good (Harvard Medical
School), Cara James (Harvard University), Byron J. Good (Harvard
Medical School), and Anne E. Becker(Harvard Medical School).

18. The Nervous Gaze: Backpacking in Africa: Claudia Bell
(University of Auckland).

19. Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality,
Population.

Politics, and NGOs: Tulsi Patel: University of Delhi and Navtej
Purewal (University of Manchester).

Part V: Media, Technology, and Inequalities:.

20. Selling Images of Inequality: Hollywood Cinema and the
Reproduction of Racial and Gender Stereotypes: Norman K. Denzin
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

21. In the Shadow of Cultural Imperialism: Television and
National Identities in the Era of Globalization: Chris Barker
(University of Wollongong).

22. Minding the Cyber-Gap, The Internet and Social Inequality:
Wenhong Chen (University of Toronto) and Barry Wellman (University
of Toronto).

23. New Global Technologies of Power: Cybernetic Capitalism and
Social Inequality: Stephen Pfohl (Boston College).

Index

लेखक के बारे में

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
Lat Crit 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).