Examining the sociological tiers of American society, the author presents a probing analysis and a critical indictment of individuals who occupy positions of power (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In the first analytical study of where the American upper-class lives and vacations, Stephen R. Higley explores the ways in which upper-class residential places are created and maintained. Drawing on the Social Register as a main source of data, Higley examines the intersection of class, status, and geography, and demonstrates the ways in which physical proximity solidifies upper-class consciousness...read more

Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. For example, many Americans rely on a social and sometimes even financial inheritance from previous generations. This inheritance, unlikely to be forthcoming if one's ancestors were slaves, privileges whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. In this important volume, scholars positioned differently with respect to white privilege examine how privilege of all forms manifests itself and how we can, and must, be aware of invisible privilege in our daily lives. Individual chapters focus on language, the workplace, the implications of comparing racism and sexism, race-based housing privilege, the dream of diversity and the cycle of exclusion, the rule of law and invisible systems of privilege, and the power of law to transform society.

Product Description: Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization...read more

Product Description: Most Americans were shocked when Anita Hill charged U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment. Not surprisingly, the nation was divided on the Senate hearings on the matter--some believed Hill, others, Thomas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Provides the most intimate view of federal higher education policymaking since Congress and the Colleges. Reveals that, despite the lack of power as measured by conventional standards, higher education associations have succeeded in convincing Congress to dramatically expand the scope of federal student aid programs under the 1992 Higher Education Act...read more

Product Description: Sociologist Domhoff argues that there is a power elite in the United States comprising a corporate community, a social upper class, and a policy formation network that intersect with each other in significant ways and score at the top of four power indicators who benefits, who governs, who wins on ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An investigation of the extent to which women, Jews, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and openly homosexual men and women have attained significant positions in large corporations, the military and the government in recent years.

Host of the long-running PBS program, Tony Brown's Journal, the author of Black Lies, White Lies presents a bold, populist program designed to transfer wealth and power from America's ruling class to its citizens. 75,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Chronicles the rise of hundreds of women in the fields of business, entertainment, and politics, including Geraldine Ferraro, Penny Marshall, Elizabeth Dole, Goldman Sach's Abby Joseph Cohen and Mattel's Jill Barad (view table of contents)

Product Description: How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The host of the long-running PBS program, Tony Brown's Journal, and the author of Black Lies, White Lies presents a bold, populist program designed to transfer wealth and power from America's ruling class to its citizens. Reprint.

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Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together—such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability—also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs.Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This brief supplemental book provides students with an easily applied theoretical model for thinking about systems of privilege and difference. Writing in accessible, conversational prose, Johnson joins theory with engaging examples in ways that enable students to see the nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Arguing for a more compassionate feminism, the author challenges the currently popular myth of the 'killer woman' who apes male aggressiveness to succeed. (view table of contents)

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The author of Governance in a Globalizing World probes the limits of American power, offering a compelling argument for the world's lone superpower to forge cooperative relationships with nations around the world. (view table of contents)