Research Catalog

Title

Analyzing inequality : life chances and social mobility in comparative perspective / edited by Stefan Svallfors.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Svallfors, Stefan.

Description

xv, 175 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new instruments that make inequality research possible; new ways of thinking and explaining; and empirical findings or important contributions of rigorous empirical research to our understanding." "The chapters, each written by a distinguished social scientist, are of interest to both scholars and students. This is the only book to date to take stock of the state of the art in stratification research, examining data, methods, theory, and new empirical findings."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in social inequality

Uniform Title

Studies in social inequality

Subject

• Equality
• Social mobility
• social mobility
• Soziale Ungleichheit
• Lebenschance
• Soziale Mobilität

Note

• Conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Life courses and life chances in a comparative perspective / Karl Ulrich Mayer -- Progress in sociology / John H. Goldthorpe -- Social indicators, policy, and measuring progress / A.B. Atkinson -- Family structure, gender roles, and social inequality / Annemette Sørensen -- Inequalities in later life / Sara Arber.

ISBN

• 0804750963
• 9780804750967

LCCN

2005003181

OCLC

• ocm62316047
• 62316047
• SCSB-8803447

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library