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Durable Inequality
Charles Tilly
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Description for Durable Inequality
Paperback. A study of social inequality, this text asks how long-lasting inequalities in life chances arise, and how they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons. It highlights the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories. Num Pages: 310 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448. 310 pages, 6 line drawings. A study of social inequality, this text asks how long-lasting inequalities in life chances arise, and how they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons. It highlights the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight: 440.
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, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing ... Read more
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, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
310
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520221703
SKU
V9780520221703
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About Charles Tilly
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 ... Read more
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"An important approach to social inequality."
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