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Product Description: Harold Kerbo continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the economic and social divisions in human societies. While the book is grounded in the nature of social stratification in the United States, this edition maintains a commitment to keeping a global perspective...read more

Product Description: One of a series of short books, each one on a different country, that provide much-needed cross-cultural and global material for instructors to use to supplement their introductory sociology text, as well as courses in social stratification, comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics and other courses that are enriched by a global perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This small book is an ideal supplement for courses such as introductory sociology, comparative studies, global studies, comparative politics and comparative economics. Organized to follow the table of contents of any standard introductory sociology text, this book establishes a historical and cultural context, then presents coverage of institutions, stratification, problems and social change in 12 concise chapters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fifty years ago, a new alliance of Japanese elites sparked the miraculous transformation of their country from a land decimated by war to an economic superpower that would become the envy of the world. These elites represented the best and brightest of Japan and they were willing to make great sacrifices for the prosperity of their people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the second edition of a text for the standard sociology course on social stratification. The text takes a conflict perspective on the subject of social stratification but considers all other perspectives. It examines the subject by including historical material and many examples from other countries...read more