Name: Social Inequality in a Global Age By Scott R. Sernau
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Social Inequality in a Global Age by Scott R. Sernau

This updated Fifth Edition of Scott Sernau's acclaimed text provides a sociological framework for analyzing inequality within the United States in the context of global stratification and a rapidly changing world economy.

About Scott R. Sernau

Scott Sernau is professor of sociology and director of International Programs at Indiana University, South Bend, where he regularly teaches social inequality, international inequalities, sustainability and urban society. He has received multiple campus and university awards for distinguished teaching and distinguished service to teaching and learning. He is editor of Contemporary Readings in Globalization (SAGE) and his previous books include: Economies of Exclusion (Praeger), Critical Choices (Oxford), Bound: Living in the Globalized World (Stylus), and Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace and Sustainability (Pearson).

Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Roots of Inequality 1. The Gordian Knot of Race, Class, and Gender Dimensions of an Unequal World Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States The Development of Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender Across Societies A Social Network Understanding of Inequality 2. The Great Debate The Historical Debate The Sociological Debate Reframing the Debate 3. The Global Divide: Inequality Across Societies Worlds Coming Apart and Coming Together The Double Divide The Global Debate Globalization: The Ties That Bind Immigration: Seeking to Cross the Divide The Market Paradox PART II. DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY 4. Class Privilege Wealth and Property Occupation Income Class Structure Growing Inequality 5. Racial and Ethnic Inequality A Debt Unpaid: Internal Colonialism Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Solidarity The Analytic Debate: Cultures and Structures of Poverty Colorful Language The Color of Justice 6. Gender and Sexual Inequality When Men Were Men From Glass Slippers to Glass Ceilings Work and Family: The Double Burden and the Second Shift Gender and Class Around the World Changing Norms on Gender and Sexuality 7. Status Prestige The Quest for Honor Socialization: Acquiring Marks of Distinction Association: Whom You Know Lifestyles of the Rich and the Destitute Tastes in Transition 8. Power and Politics People Power and Powerful People Who Rules? The Power Elite Debate Changing the Rules: Campaign Finance Reform Global Power: Who Really Rules? PART III. CHALLENGES OF INEQUALITY 9. Moving Up: Education and Mobility Getting Ahead Education: Opening Doors, Opening Minds No Child Left Behind Ladders With Broken Rungs 10. Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place Urban Poverty: Abandoned Spaces The Making and Unmaking of the Postindustrial City Brain-Gain and Brain-Drain Cities Suburban Poverty: The Urban Fringe Rural Poverty: Forgotten Places Poverty in the Global Ghetto 11. Reversing the Race to the Bottom: Poverty and Policy From Welfare to Work The Challenge of the Margins: Antipoverty Programs Extreme Poverty: Homelessness and Hunger Poverty Programs Among Advanced Industrial Nations The Private World of Poverty 12. Challenging the System: Social Movements in a Global Age The Enduring Struggle: The Labor Movement Gender and Power: The Women's Movement Gay Rights: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Equal Access Race and Power: The Civil Rights Movement The Happiest Place on Earth One World After All Glossary References Index About the Author

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1483373975

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Social Inequality in a Global Age by Scott R. Sernau

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Scott R. Sernau

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SAGE Publications Inc

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20160728

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408

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