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The book demonstrates how and why, over the last thirty years, class inequalities in the U.
The text includes new "Class Issues in the Media" sidebar readings at the end of each chapter and, like earlier editions, is written for a wide audience featuring many insightful figures, tables, and cartoons. This book is an essential text for students and citizens interested in understanding the nature and significance of class structures and inequalities in the U.
Earl Wysong is professor of sociology at Indiana University Kokomo.
He is the author of High Risk and High Stakes: Health Professionals, Policy, and Politics. In this 4th edition of a seminal work 1st ed.
In the wake of the recent recession, banking and industry bailouts, the Occupy movement, and similar influences, the underlying message of the previous editions is even more salient. This volume represents an updated version of what came before, expounding on the "double diamond" model of US society.
Supporting their assertions with new and diverse evidence, the authors support this model as a departure from past constructs of society that more resemble a layered wedding cake, for example. Recent years have been replete with evidence of the theory represented by this double diamond model. Therefore, since this volume represents the most current permutation and presentation of the growing chasm in US society, it remains an exceptionally important book.
The developments of recent years have done nothing to weaken the core of the theory, but rather have provided substantial and nuanced support. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate collections related to stratification. Knowles Valdosta State University. Thank you for using the catalog.
This third edition extends the authors' distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised with new, recent examples from today's news, social issues, and global developments. The book demonstrates how and why, over the last thirty years, class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and legitimized.
List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Class in America -- 2: I heard author Robert Perrucci speak about the 'double-diamond U. As a result she briefly engaged the author in conversation and then requested his book through Interlibrary Loan. Perrucci and Wysong hold a very pessimistic view on any potential for 'upward mobility' in the United States A hard book to read, but worth attempting for anyone wishing to engage in public policy debate I heard author Robert Perrucci speak about the 'double-diamond U.
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New figures, tables, and references incorporate the latest information and research findings to document and illustrate key topics, such as the distribution of wealth and income, globalization, downsizing, contingent labor, the role of money in politics, media content and consolidation, the transformation of education, and the erosion of democracy. Therefore, since this volume represents the most current permutation and presentation of the growing chasm in US society, it remains an exceptionally important book. Global economy and the privileged class -- 4: The Invisible Class Empire. The Way We Were.