| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Diversity and inequality. Durable inequality / Charles Tilly ; Two visions of the relationship between individual and society : the Bell curve versus social structure and personality / Melvin L. Kohn ; Two faces of diversity : recreating the stranger next door? / Henry A. Walker ; Gender, sexuality, and inequality : when many become one, who is the one and what happens to the others? / Sandra Lipsitz Bem -- pt. 2. The new demography of durable inequality. The state of the American dream : race and ethnic socioeconomic inequality in the United States, 1970-90 / Charles Hirschman and C. Matthew Snipp ; Strangers next door : immigrant groups and suburbs in Los Angeles and New York / Richard Alba [and others] ; Jobless poverty : a new form of social dislocation in the inner-city ghetto / William Julius Wilson ; Persisting inequality between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan America : implications for theory and policy / David L. Brown and Marlene A. Lee -- pt. 3. Durable inequality in American institutions. Do historically Black colleges and universities enhance the college attendance of African American youths? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Donna S. Rothstein and Robert B. Olsen ; Overcoming race : Army lessons for American society / Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler ; War's legacy in men's lives / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Christopher Chan ; Diversity and consensus : what part does religion play? / J. Milton Yinger ; Diversity in American families / Judieth Treas ; Television and diversity : the quantum leap model / James Lowell Gibbs, Jr. -- pt. 4. Afterword. The reduction of intergroup tensions / Robin M. Williams, Jr. with a preface by Peter I. Rose ; Long time passing : race, prejudice, and the reduction of intergroup tensions / Peter I. Rose |
| Summary |
The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve sexual and gender minorities, those who possess alternate family forms, and white and nonwhite immigrants, as well as the widening gulf between rich and poor Americans. A Nation Divided offers a fresh approach to these controversial issues. In this volume, leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity and inequality. Using the latest theory and research, the authors show how different groups become socially and economically unequal and how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national stability. They also discuss strategies for reducing durable inequality and creating social harmony. Their contributions address the changing demography of diversity and inequality and the interplay of diversity, inequality, and community in educational institutions, the military, the family, popular culture, and religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-326) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Social classes -- United States
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Social stratification -- United States
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Cultural pluralism -- United States
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Cultural pluralism
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Social classes
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Social conditions
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Social stratification
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Klassenstruktur
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Sozialstruktur
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Soziale Klasse
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Soziale Ungleichheit
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Sociale ongelijkheid.
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Pluralisme (algemeen)
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71.12 social stratification, social mobility.
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Social classes -- United States.
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Social stratification -- United States.
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Cultural pluralism -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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United States
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USA
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Electronic book
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Moen, Phyllis
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Dempster-McClain, Donna
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Walker, Henry A., 1943-
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9781501728914 |
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1501728911 |
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