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Edited By David Bills, University of Iowa, IA, USA
Description This volume brings together former students, colleagues, and others influenced by the sociological scholarship of Archibald O. Haller
to celebrate Haller's many contributions to theory and research on social stratification and mobility. All of the chapters respond to
Haller's programmatic agenda for stratification research: "A full program aimed at understanding stratification requires: first, that
we know what stratification structures consist of and how they may vary; second, that we identify the individual and collective consequences
of the different states and rates of change of such structures; and third, seeing that some degree of stratification seems to
be present everywhere, that we identify the factors that make stratification structures change." The contributors to this Festschrift
address such topics as the changing nature of stratification regimes, the enduring significance of class analysis, the stratifying dimensions
of race, ethnicity, and gender, and the interplay between educational systems and labor market outcomes. Many of the chapters adopt an
explicitly cross-societal comparative perspective on processes and consequences of social stratification. The volume offers both conceptually
and empirically important new analyses of the shape of social stratification.
Concepts for Social Stratification.
Are There Any Big Classes at All?
(K.A. Weeden, D.B. Grusky). Spaces and Networks: Concepts for Social Stratification. (J. Woelfel, M.
Murero). Some Demographic Aspects of Rurality. (G.V. Fuguitt).
Applications in U.S. Society. Assimilation in American
Society: Occupational Achievement and Earnings for Ethnic Minorities in the United States, 1970 to 1990. (C.M. Snipp, C. Hirschman).
Changes in the Structure of Status Systems: Employment Shifts in the Wake of Deindustrialization. (W.J. Haller). Physical and Mental
Health Status of Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective. (M. Kleykamp, M. Tienda). The Black-White Achievement Gap in the
First College Year: Evidence from a New Longitudinal Case Study.
(K.I. Spenner, C. Buchmann, L.R. Landerman).
Comparative Applications.
Status Allocation in Village India. (B.D. Sharda). The Future of Gender in Mexico and the United states: Economic Transformation and
Changing Definitions. (P. Fenandez-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. (J. Kelley, K. Zagorski).
Race, Socioeconomic Development and the Educational Stratification Process in Brazil. (D. Cireno Fernandes).
Labor Force Classes and
the Earnings Determination of the Farm Population in Brazil: 1973, 1982, and 1988. (J.A Neves).
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