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- integrates gender, class, and race and doesn't treat them separately, which makes it both comprehensive but also theoretically cohesive for those scholars who don't want to see these categories divorced
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- the authors pay increased attention to disability, intersectionality, immigration, religion, and place
- greater emphasis placed on crime and the criminal justice system as well as health and the environment
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- new chapter on policy alternatives and venues for social change.
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- the chapters are really well calibrated for teaching both in length and progression (they build on each other). Easy to structure the course without switching things around much.
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- covers a wide net of inequalities, thus raising awareness of inequality in all its phases is
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- shows structural factors in social stratification.
Heather M. Fitz Gibbon is a Professor of Sociology at the College of Wooster. Her research focuses on poverty in micropolitan regions, motherhood within the welfare system, and childcare systems. She has been a community-based researcher, evaluating anti-poverty and family literacy community programs.
Anne M. Nurse is a Professor of Sociology at the College of Wooster. Her published work is on juvenile corrections and child sexual abuse prevention. She most recently published Confronting Child Sexual Abuse.
Charles E. Hurst is an emeritus Professor of Sociology at the College of Wooster. His work focuses on issues of social status, comparative poverty and inequality, and the uses of theories in understanding contemporary problems. Recently, these interests also include studies of status in Amish communities in Ohio.
Title: Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
Author: Hurst, Charles,Nurse, Anne,Fitz Gibbon, Heather
ISBN: 9781032027371
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Number of Pages: 404
Weight: 0.7895 kg
