Analyzing Inequality: Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Stefan Svallfors

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today’s theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new instruments that make inequality research possible; new ways of thinking and explaining; and empirical findings or important contributions of rigorous empirical research to our understanding.The chapters, each written by a distinguished social scientist, are of interest to both scholars and students. This is the only book to date to take stock of the state of the art in stratification research, examining data, methods, theory, and new empirical findings. Analyzing Inequality offers an unusually and impressively broad coverage of substantive topics in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

studies in social inequality......Page 3
contents......Page 10
tables and figures......Page 12
contributors......Page 14
preface......Page 16
chapter one Introduction......Page 20
chapter two Life Courses and Life Chances in a Comparative Perspective......Page 36
chapter three Progress in Sociology: The Case of Social Mobility Research......Page 75
chapter four Social Indicators, Policy, and Measuring Progress A. B. Atkinson......Page 102
chapter five Family Structure, Gender Roles, and Social Inequality......Page 127
chapter six Inequalities in Later Life: Gender, Marital Status, and Health Behaviors......Page 148
index......Page 184