Social Inequality and Mobility Exam reading list 2013 Marx Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. 1848. Manifesto of the Communist Party. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ Marx, Karl. 1844/1932. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Marx, Karl. 1847/1955. The Poverty of Philosophy. Weber Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic. 3rd ed. Roxbury, 2002.[1904-05]. Weber, Max. Economy and Society. Translated by G. Roth and C. Wittich. New York: Bedminster Press, 1968. o The Distribution of Power Within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party. Pp. 926-940. o Status Groups and Classes. Pp.302-307. Collins, Randall. "Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: a Systematization." American Sociological Review 45: 925-942. Chan, Tak Wing and John H. Goldthorpe. 2007. Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and Its Empirical Relevance. American Sociological Review 72(4):512-532. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472477 Wright, Erik Olin. 2002. The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber's Class Analysis. American Sociological Review (67):832-853. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3088972 American functionalism and post-durkheimians Parsons, Talcott. 1940. An Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification. American Journal of Sociology 45(6):841-862. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2769194 Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert E. Moore. 1945. Some Principles of Stratification. American Sociological Review 10(2):242-249. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2085643 Tumin, Melvin M. 1953. Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis. American Sociological Review 18(4):387-394. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2087551 Grusky, David B. and Jesper B. Sørensen. 1998. Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged? American Journal of Sociology 103(5):1187-1234. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/231351 Theory and method Tilly, Charles. 1999. Durable Inequality. University of California Press. Reskin, Barbara F. 2003. Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality. American Sociological Review 68 (February): 1-21. Intersectionality Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 2004. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. Harvard University Press. King, Deborah K. Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1988, vol. 14, no. 1. Collins, Patricia Hill. Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection. Race, Sex, & Class, 1, no 1, Fall
Contemporary income inequality Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, Benjamin Sosnaud, and Laura Tach. 2012. Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification. Annual Review of Sociology 38: 341-359. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145434 Neckerman, Kathryn M. and Florencia Torche. 2007. "Inequality: Causes and consequences." Annual Review of Sociology 33:335-357. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29737766 Wilkinson, Richard G. and Kate E. Pickett. 2009. "Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction." Annual Review of Sociology 35:493-511. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27800088 Class and race DuBois, W. E. Burghardt. 1901. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 18:121-140. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1009886 Wilson, William Julius. 1981. Race, Class, and Public Policy. American Sociologist 16(2):125-134. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27702469 Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged. Landry, Bart and Kris Marsh. 2011. The Evolution of the New Black Middle Class. Annual Review of Sociology 37:373-394. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc- 081309-150047 Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Iceland, John and Rima Wilkes. 2006. Does Socioeconomic Status Matter? Race, Class, and Residential Segregation, Social Problems 53(2):248-273. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sp.2006.53.2.248 Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. "Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation and Devaluation Across U.S. Labor Markets." American Journal of Sociology 109(4):902-936. Hunt, Matthew and Rashawn Ray. 2012. Black Americans Social Class Identifications: Trends and Determinants, 1974-2010. American Behavioral Scientist 56: 1462-1480. http://intlabs.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/09/18/0002764212458275.abstract Oliver, Melvin and Thomas Shapiro. 1995. Black Wealth, White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge. Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. 1999. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pattillo, Mary. 2005. Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods. Annual Review of Sociology 31:305-29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29737722 Human Capital Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1975. The Problem with Human Capital Theory A Marxian Critique. American Economic Review 65(2):74-82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1818836 Leicht, Kevin. 2008. Broken Down by Race and Gender? Sociological Explanations of New Sources of Earnings Inequality. Annual Review of Sociology 34: 237-255. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134627 Tomaskovic Devey, Donald, Melvin Thomas and Kecia Johnson. 2005. Race and the Accumulation of Human Capital across the Career: A Theoretical Model and Fixed Effects Application. American Journal of Sociology 111(1):58-89. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/431
Social and cultural capital Coleman, James S. 1988. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. American Journal of Sociology 94:S95-S120. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780243 Lareau, Annette. 2002. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families. American Sociological Review 67(5):747-776. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3088916 Lareau, Annette and Elliot B. Weininger. 2003. Cultural Capital in Educational Research: A Critical Assessment. Theory and Society 32(5/6): 567-606. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3649652 Gaddis, S. Michael. 2012. The Influence of Habitus in the Relationship Between Cultural Capital and Academic Achievement. Social Science Research (advance online). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0049089x12001603 Gender: theories Chafetz, Janet Saltzman. 1997. Feminist Theory and Sociology: Underutilized Contributions for Mainstream Theory. Annual Review of Sociology 23:97-120. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2952545 MacKinnon, Catharine A. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory. Signs 7(3):515-544. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173853 Risman, Barbara J. 2004. Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism. Gender and Society 18(4)::429-450. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4149444 West, Candace & Sarah Fenstermaker. 1995. Doing Difference. Gender & Society, Vol.9 No.1, February 1995: 8-37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/189596 Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. Gender and Society 1(2):125-151. http://www.jstor.org/stable/189945 Gender in U.S. labor markets Goldin, Claudia. 2006. The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family. American Economic Review 96(2):1-21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30034606 England, Paula. 2010. "The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled." Gender & Society 24(2):149-166. http://gas.sagepub.com/content/24/2/149 Cotter, David, Joan M. Hermsen, Reeve Vanneman. 2011. The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 2008. American Journal of Sociology 117(1): 259-289. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658853 Cotter, David A. et al. 1997. All Women Benefit: The Macro-Level Effect of Occupational Integration on Gender Earnings Equality. American Sociological Review 62(October): 714-734. Families and inequality Edin, Kathryn and Maria Kefalas. 2005. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. University of California Press. Conger, Rand D., Katherine J. Conger, and Monica J. Martin. 2010. Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development. Journal of Marriage and Family 72(3):685-704. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40732503 Edin, Kathryn and Rebecca Joyce Kissane. 2010. Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review. Journal of Marriage and Family 72(3):460-479. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40732491
Networks and elites Granovetter, Mark S. 1973. The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology 78(6):1360-1380. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2776392 DiMaggio, Paul and Filiz Garip. 2012. Network Effects and Social Inequality. Annual Review of Sociology 38: 93-118. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102545 Khan, Shamus Rahman. 2012. The Sociology of Elites. Annual Review of Sociology 38: 361-377. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145542 Incarceration Wakefield, Sara and Christopher Uggen. 2010. Incarceration and Stratification. Annual Review of Sociology 36:387-406. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25735084 Wildeman, Christopher. 2012. Imprisonment and Infant Mortality. Social Problems 59(2):228-257. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sp.2012.59.2.228 Pager, Devah. 2003. The Mark of a Criminal Record. American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/374403 Global inequality Couple pieces on comparing U.S. to other countries Korzeniewicz, R. P. and T. P. Moran. 1997. "World-economic trends in the distribution of income, 1965-1992." American Journal of Sociology 102(4):1000-1039. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2782025 Clark, Rob. 2011. World Income Inequality in the Global Era: New Estimates, 1990-2008. Social Problems 58(4):565-592. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sp.2011.58.4.565 Beckfield, Jason. 2006. European Integration and Income Inequality. American Sociological Review 71(6):964-985. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472439 Poverty Brady, David. 2003. Rethinking the Sociological Measurement of Poverty. Social Forces 81(3):715-751. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598174 Hoynes, Hilary W., Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens. 2006. "Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations" Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(Winter): 47-68. Chen, Wen-Hao and Miles Corak. 2008. "Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty." Demography 45(August): 537-553. Clampet-Lundquist, Susan and Douglas S. Massey. 2008. "Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment." American Journal of Sociology 114(July): 107-143. Neuman, Katherine S. 2000. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. Vintage. Mobility Blau, Peter and Otis Dudley Duncan, 1967. The American Occupational Structure New York: Wiley. Read chapter 5. Hauser, Robert M., John N. Koffel, Harry P. Travis, and Peter J. Dickinson. 1975. "Temporal Change in Occupational Mobility: Evidence for Men in the United States." American Sociological Review 40 (June): 279-297 Hout, Michael. 1988. "More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s." American Journal of Sociology 93(May): 1358-1400.
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