A Nation Divided
Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2018
360 pages
978-1-5017-2891-4 (ISBN)
Description
The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve sexual and gender minorities, those who possess alternate family forms, and white and nonwhite immigrants, as well as the widening gulf between rich and poor Americans.A Nation Divided offers a fresh approach to these controversial issues. In this volume, leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity and inequality. Using the latest theory and research, the authors show how different groups become socially and economically unequal and how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national stability. They also discuss strategies for reducing durable inequality and creating social harmony. Their contributions address the changing demography of diversity and inequality and the interplay of diversity, inequality, and community in educational institutions, the military, the family, popular culture, and religion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
23 tables, 20 drawings, 6 maps, 1 photograph
23 tables, 20 drawings, 6 maps, 1 photograph
File size
29,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-2891-4 (9781501728914)
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Phyllis Moen | Donna Dempster-McClain | Henry A. Walker
A Nation Divided
Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society
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07/1999
Cornell University Press
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Phyllis Moen | Donna Dempster-McClain | Henry A. Walker
A Nation Divided
Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society
Book
07/1999
Cornell University Press
€148.56
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
MoenPhyllis:
Phyllis Moen is the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies at Cornell University, where she also serves as Professor of Human Development and of Sociology, and was founding Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. She has accepted a McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota for the fall of 2003. Her many books include A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society, also published by Cornell University Press.Dempster-McClainDonna:
Donna Dempster-McClain, Senior Lecturer in Human Development, is Associate Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. Henry A. Walker is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.WalkerHenry A.:
Henry A. Walker is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.
Phyllis Moen is the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies at Cornell University, where she also serves as Professor of Human Development and of Sociology, and was founding Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. She has accepted a McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota for the fall of 2003. Her many books include A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society, also published by Cornell University Press.Dempster-McClainDonna:
Donna Dempster-McClain, Senior Lecturer in Human Development, is Associate Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. Henry A. Walker is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.WalkerHenry A.:
Henry A. Walker is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.
Content
- Cover
- A Natlion Divided
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE: DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITY
- 1 Durable Inequality
- 2 Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society: The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality
- 3 Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door?
- 4 Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One, Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others?
- PART TWO:THE NEW DEMOGRAPHY OF DURABLE INEQUALITY
- 5 The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970-90
- 6 Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York
- 7 Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto
- 8 Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy
- PART THREE: DURABLE INEQUALITY IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS
- 9 Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths?
- 10 Overcoming Race:Army Lessons for American Society
- 11 War's Legacy in Men's Lives
- 12 Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play?
- 13 Diversity in American Families
- 14 Television and Diversity:The Quantum Leap Model
- PART FOUR:AFTERWORD
- 15 The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions
- 16 Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
