Product Description: In this Eighth Edition of his acclaimed and thought-provoking text, author Dennis Gilbert explores historical and contemporary empirical studies of class inequality in America through the lens of nine key variables. Focusing on the socioeconomic core of the American class system, Gilbert describes a consistent pattern of growing inequality in the United States since the early 1970s...read more

Product Description: AMERICAN CLASS STRUCTURE, 4th Edition, is a core text on stratification that provides a thorough empirical description of the American class structure. The authors also provide an in-depth look at the classic studies which have had a major influence on the research tradition.

Product Description: According to Dennis Gilbert, the history of the Sandinista Party is a succession of confrontations between its Marxist ideological principles and the conditions of life in Nicaragua that have continually challenged and diluted the party's political orthodoxy...read more