books about: inequalities     books:       Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality David M. Newman McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005 We don’t experience our everyday lives through just one lens; rather, we experience all elements of our identity--race, class, gender, sexuality--simultaneously. This ground-breaking, engaging, highly accessible new book acknowledges this reality and brings to light the importance of studying the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality, both as elements of personal identity and as sources of social inequality.             Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes Martin Marger McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007 This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing primarily on social class, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they overlap and interrelate.             The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality1 review Tracy E. Ore McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008 College book, messages for everyone I was required to read this book for one of my graduate classes and enjoyed the format and topics. The variety of authors and perspectives is interesting, and even though it talks down to the read in some of the section introductions, the overrall message becomes clear: the systems in place that support racism and bigotry are large and well supported, but you can still do something starting with ...             Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences (6th Edition) Charles E. Hurst Allyn & Bacon, 2006 Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences, Fourth Edition conveys to readers a complex and up-to-date view of social inequality in the United States in a way that informs, draws them in, and encourages them to look at the inequality surrounding them. The book is based on the assumptions that social inequality is multidimensional and that in order to deal with inequality and its consequences we need to understand the theories ...             Discourse on the Origin of Inequality5 reviews Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hackett Publishing Company, 1992 Excellent Excellent discourse. This book discusses some of the rudiments of the history of inequality and how its self supporting and ever existing in human nature. I recommend this book for those readers who either want to increase their knowledge on Jean-Jacques Rousseau or historical development of inequality (...)             Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools146 reviews Jonathan Kozol Harper Perennial, 1992 Another great book by Jonathan Kozol Kozol begins his book by writing about east St.Louis. Wikipedia writes about East St.Louis as one of the most crime-ridden cities in the nation. This is one of the poorest cities in America and of course the school system suffers. The school buildings are run down, bathrooms are broken, and the kids don't have textbooks to study from. The physics labs haven't had water for 25 years and the sports ...             Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues8 reviews Paul Farmer University of California Press, 2001 Where are the Virchows of global public health? The context of epidemics is important. What happens to the poor people who have drug resistant tuberculosis? Market mechanisms do not serve the interest of global health equity. The cost-efectiveness argument is weak. Poverty limits freedom of choice. AIDS education falls short. Arguments about limited resources should not prevail. There is a global web of unequal relationships. Structural ...             Respect in a World of Inequality3 reviews Richard Sennett W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 A Very Distinct Piece of Scholarship When a "customer" of this book (not a "reader", for sure) can make a comment and leave it on Amazon labeled as the so-called "review", I think that a unique example of 'free speech'! It seems we have the right to say almost anything about a book we may not be educated enough to read or understand it.             Equations Inequalities and Vics GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)3 reviews Manhattan GMAT Prep MG Prep, Inc., 2007 A good refresher Quantitative section on the GMAT can be a little tricky, even if you were pretty good at Math in your high school or in college. Why? Because the skills tested on the GMAT are different than the one you acquired in high school or college. I am an engineering major and I took multiple advanced Math courses in my college and yet, I benefited from the Manhattan Review quantitative books. Of ...             Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States9 reviews Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006 If open to understanding the minority perspective This book may annoy, irritate, and even infuriate some, but if any of these emotions arise, you might ask yourself "why do I feel so defensive?"...and I promise, you will gather a bit of enlightment. The book portrays the perspective of minority peoples in a way that will open your eyes. It IS one-sided, but not because the author is a "racist", rather, he feels (it's in his Author's Note) that ...             Global Inequality and Human Needs: Health and Illness in an Increasingly Unequal World Laurie Wermuth Allyn & Bacon, 2002 This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world. Global Inequality and Human Needs includes case studies from various countries (Russia, Chile, India, Sub-Saharan Africa) as well as the U.S. show the impact of policy on social inequality and health. Sociologists, public health professionals and anyone interested ...             Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class and Gender (5th Edition) Robert A. Rothman Prentice Hall, 2004 Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this guide provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender—explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality. Its straightforward perspective views the considerations of race and gender as central to a full appreciation of the composition and dynamics of class systems. A significant and effective organization ...             Super Rich: The Rise of Inequality in Britain and the United States George Irvin Polity, 2008 In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an academic and a general audience, examines how this happened, starting with the economic shocks of the 1970s and the neo-liberal policies first applied under Thatcher and Reagan. In essence, growing inequality and economic instability is seen as driven by ...             The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition, Vol. Two: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, ... Ronald P. Strauss Duke University Press, 2005 Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader . The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and ...             Social Stratification and Inequality3 reviews Harold R Kerbo McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008 Social Stratification and Inequality READ THIS BOOK!! You need to truly understand the class system in America and the means used to sustain it. This book is a fantastic survey of the class system in American society. It also includes analyses of world stratification systems and various theories surrounding these systems. Previous reviews of this book have had a narrow focus, rather than making judgement on a wholistic basis. A ...             The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide Richard Lynn Washington Summit Publishers, 2008 Richard Lynn s new book shows that in many multi-racial countries, people of Jewish and East Asian ancestry average highest in IQ and socio-economic position, Whites next highest, South Asians and Hispanics next highest, and people of African descent consistently average at lower levels. Lynn argues that the average population group differences in socio-economic position (education levels, earnings, welfare dependency) are due to their average ...             The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality3 reviews Dennis Gilbert Pine Forge Press, 2008 Good Information, Lacks "Big Picture" This book has a WEALTH of information on poverty and class structure in America. Any statistic you were looking for on the subject is probably in here. Additionally, the author addresses many of those 'tough' issues related to class: race, school inequality, welfare reform, etc. However, in the end, this book contains a lot of facts and figures, but not a lot of perspective. After reading ...             The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American ...14 reviews Thomas J. Sugrue Princeton University Press, 2005 Excellent history of urban decline This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil rights actually emerged as opposition to the New Deal coalition. Urban, anti-liberal, northern whites, as well as corporate ...             Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy)9 reviews Robert H. Frank University of California Press, 2007 Falling Behind... I absolutely hate history, but Frank makes it relatively quick. His analysis of the current situation in the United States (relative versus absolute spending issues) is convincing, and his plan (along with many others) for policy change is reasonable. Now, if only politicians funded by big business would listen...             When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America13 reviews Ira Katznelson W. W. Norton, 2006 LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. I cannot see how anyone can read this book and not agree with me that Lincoln did not free the slaves. 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