Like past editions, this tenth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the pervasiveness and extensiveness of social inequality in the United States within a comparative context, to show how in
Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
โ Scribed by Charles E. Hurst; Heather M. Fitz Gibbon; Anne M. Nurse
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 414
- Edition
- 10
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Revised edition of the authors' Social inequality, 2017.
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