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" The shape of social inequality : "
edited by David B. Bills.
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BL
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950129
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b704499
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| Title & Author
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The shape of social inequality : : stratification and ethnicity in comparative perspective /\ edited by David B. Bills.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Oxford :: Elsevier JAI,, 2005.
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Research in social stratification and mobility ;; v. 22
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xxvii, 475 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0762311789
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: 9780762311781
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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Race discrimination-- United States.
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Race discrimination.
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Social stratification.
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Race discrimination.
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Race relations.
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Social conditions
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Social stratification.
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Soziale Ungleichheit.
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United States, Race relations.
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United States, Social conditions, 20th century.
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United States.
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305
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HM821.S53 2005
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Bills, David B.,1953-
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