Product Description: What accounts for persistent racial inequality in the 21st century? While many studies detail the causes and consequences of racial inequities, few analyse the mechanisms reproducing structures of inequality. When Race Meets Class asks how lived experiences, at the micro level, shed light on the macro structures of racial inequality? A rare, ten-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into early adulthood...read more

"Social Class and Stratification" brings together classical statements on socialstratification with current and original scholarship to provide a foundation fortheoretical debate on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. A section onAmerican stratification theory opens with Warner, continuing the debate on thefunctionalist theory of stratification. Further selections by Parkin and Wrightrevitalize the debates on the nature of social class today. Readings by Acker,Hartmann, Baca-Zinn and Dill examine our understanding of gender inequality, whiletheories by DuBois, Cox, and others provide competing theoretical foundations forunderstanding the complexity of race. Finally, an essay by Patricia Hill Collinsdiscusses the basis for conceptualizing the intersection of race, class, and gender.Levine's concluding chapter reflects on the importance of class analysis and offers anexcellent overview of recent theory and research on the intersection of race, class,and gender inequality. This new edition includes a revised and updated Editor'sIntroduction and Conclusion, along with five new chapters on race and gender from topresearchers in the field.

Product Description: Since the 1960s, radical sociology has had far more influence on mainstream sociology than many observers imagine. This book pairs seminal articles with new reflective essays written by the founders of progressive sociology, including Fred Block, Edna Bonacich, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Val Burris, G...read more

This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America. It is a fascinating account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in south central New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in small towns and villages that are overwhelmingly Christian. The book pays particular attention to the unique role played by women in managing the transition to the United States, in helping their husbands accumulate capital, and in recreating a German Jewish community. Yet Levine goes further than her analysis of German Jewish refugees. She also argues that it is possible to explain the situations of other immigrant and ethnic groups using the structure/network/identity framework that arises from this research. According to Levine, situating the lives of immigrants and refugees within the larger context of economic and social change, but without losing sight of the significance of social networks and everyday life, shows how social structure, class, ethnicity, and gender interact to account for immigrant adaptation and mobility. (view table of contents)

Product Description: As part of the current rediscovery of the Sixties, this book brings together autobiographical essays by individuals whose radicalism developed in and around the academic discipline of sociology. The contributors expose the roots of their radical consciousness by examining interrelated personal and historical themes: how the socioeconomic and political conditions of the 1960s acted as an intellectual incubator that served to radicalize a significant number of sociologists; and how critical, radical, Marxist, and humanist sociology developed in the context of this era...read more

Product Description: At present, Marxism appears to have a strong footing within American sociology. This collection of essays not only focuses on current efforts to revitalize Marxism, but carefully examines the emerging new establishment within the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)