Durable Inequality
Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, T…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-92422-2
- EAN: 9780520924222
- Produktnummer: 21595843
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 310 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'279 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and former Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Studies of Social Change at the New School for Social Research. Among his recent books are Roads from Past to Future (1997), Work Under Capitalism (with Chris Tilly, 1997), Popular Contention in Great Britain (1995), and European Revolutions (1993).
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