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.
Author(s): David Bills
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 506
Front Cover......Page 1
THE SHAPE OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY: STRATIFICATION AND ETHNICITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
EDITORIAL BOARD......Page 12
PREFACE: ARCHIBALD ORBEN HALLER, AN INTELLECTUAL PORTRAIT......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
PART I: CONCEPTS FOR SOCIAL STRATIFICATION......Page 30
CHAPTER 1. ARE THERE ANY BIG CLASSES AT ALL?......Page 32
CHAPTER 2. SPACES AND NETWORKS: CONCEPTS FOR SOCIAL STRATIFICATION......Page 86
CHAPTER 3. SOME DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF RURALITY......Page 102
PART II: APPLICATIONS IN U.S. SOCIETY......Page 120
CHAPTER 4. ASSIMILATION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY: OCCUPATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND EARNINGS FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1970 TO 1990......Page 122
CHAPTER 5. CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF STATUS SYSTEMS: EMPLOYMENT SHIFTS IN THE WAKE OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION......Page 148
CHAPTER 6. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS: A COMPARATIVE ETHNIC PERSPECTIVE......Page 178
CHAPTER 7. THE BLACK-WHITE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN THE FIRST COLLEGE YEAR: EVIDENCE FROM A NEW LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY......Page 216
PART III: COMPARATIVE APPLICATIONS......Page 246
CHAPTER 8. STATUS ALLOCATION IN VILLAGE INDIA......Page 248
CHAPTER 9. THE FUTURE OF GENDER IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGING DEFINITIONS......Page 284
CHAPTER 10. DO ETHNIC ENCLAVES BENEFIT OR HARM LINGUISTICALLY ISOLATED EMPLOYEES?......Page 310
CHAPTER 11. ECONOMIC CHANGE AND THE LEGITIMATION OF INEQUALITY: THE TRANSITION FROM SOCIALISM TO THE FREE MARKET IN CENTRAL-EAST EUROPE......Page 348
CHAPTER 12. RACE, SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE EDUCATIONAL STRATIFICATION PROCESS IN BRAZIL......Page 394
CHAPTER 13. LABOR FORCE CLASSES AND THE EARNINGS DETERMINATION OF THE FARM POPULATION IN BRAZIL: 1973, 1982, AND 1988......Page 452
