Durable inequality
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Durable inequality
University of California Press, 1999, c1998
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"First paperback printing 1999"--T.p. verso
"The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series was established in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1987"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is--as small as a household or as large as a government--the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Of Essences and Bonds
2. From Transactions to Structures
3* How Categories Work
4. Modes of Exploitation
5* How to Hoard Opportunities
6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality
7* The Politics of Inequality
8. Future Inequalities
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Index
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