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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520211715

ISBN-139780520211711

eBay Product ID (ePID)864032

Product Key Features

Number of Pages310 Pages

Publication NameDurable Inequality

LanguageEnglish

SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, Human Geography, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Economics / General

Publication Year1998

TypeTextbook

AuthorCharles Tilly

Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN97-031570

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal339.2

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 1. Of Essences and Bonds 2. From Transactions to Structures 3· How Categories Work 4. Modes of Exploitation 5· How to Hoard Opportunities 6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality 7· The Politics of Inequality 8. Future Inequalities References Index

SynopsisCharles 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 organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is--as small as a household or as large as a government--the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.

LC Classification Number97-31570