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Overview"Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the ""organization"" is-as small as a household or as large as a government-the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles TillyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: Revised ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520221703ISBN 10: 0520221702 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 01 September 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Of Essences and Bonds 2. From Transactions to Structures 3* How Categories Work 4. Modes of Exploitation 5* How to Hoard Opportunities 6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality 7* The Politics of Inequality 8. Future Inequalities References IndexReviewsAn important approach to social inequality. --M. M. Denny, Choice """An important approach to social inequality."" * CHOICE *" Author InformationCharles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and former Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Studies of Social Change at the New School for Social Research. Among his recent books are Roads from Past to Future (1997), Work Under Capitalism (with Chris Tilly, 1997), Popular Contention in Great Britain (1995), and European Revolutions (1993). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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