stratification and ethnicity in comparative perspective /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by David B. Bills.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oxford :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Elsevier JAI,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxvii, 475 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Research in social stratification and mobility ;
Volume Designation
v. 22
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface: Archibald Orben Haller, an intellectural porptrait / Alejandro Portes -- Introduction / David B. Bills. pt. 1. Concepts for social stratification. Are there any big classes at all? / Kim A. Weeden and David B. Grusky -- Spaces and networks: concepts for social stratification / Joseph Woelfel and Monica Murero -- Some demographic aspects of rurality / Glenn V. Fuguitt -- pt. 2. Applications in U.S. society. Assimilation in American society: occupational achievement and earnings for ethnic minorities in the United States, 1970 to 1990 / C. Matthew Snipp and Charles Hirschman -- Changes in the structure of status systems: employment shifts in the wake of deindustrialization / William J. Haller -- Physical and mental health status of adolescent girls: a comparative ethnic perspective / Meredith Kleykamp and Marta Tienda -- The black-white achievement gap in the first college year: evidence from a new longitudinal case study / Kenneth I. Spenner, Claudia Buchmann and Lawrence R. Landerman -- pt. 3. Comparative applications. Status allocation in village India / Bam Dev Sharda -- The future of gender in Mexico and United States: economic transformation and changing definitions / Patricia Fenández-Kelly -- Do ethnic enclaves benefit or harm linguistically isolated employees? / M.D.R. Evans -- Economic change and the legitimation of inequality: the transition from socialism to the free market in central-east Europe / Jonathan Kelley and Krzysztof Zagorski -- Face, socioeconomic development and the educational stratification process in Brazil / Danielle Cireno Fernandes -- Labor force classes and the earnings determination of the farm population in Brazil: 1973, 1982, and 1988 / Jorge Alexandre Neves.