Product Description: The field of social stratification is being reshaped by advances in theory and method, as well as by new approaches to the analysis of macro-economic, institutional, demographic and ascriptive sources of inequality. The contributors to this work address such matters as recent trends in gender attitudes and the gender gap in earnings, racial- and class-based differentials in life chances and income, cross-national and institutional variability in employment systems and inequality, the division of domestic labour within households, and the implications of demographic change for social inequality...read more