April 15

Engines Of Inequality: Class, Race, And Family Structure In USA

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Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure
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The past 30 years has witnessed a dramatic divergence in family structure by social class, income, education, and race. This article reviews the data on these trends, explores their significance, and assesses social scientists’ recent attempts to explain them. The article concludes that society-wide changes in economic conditions or social expectations cannot account for these patterns. Rather, for reasons that are poorly understood, cultural disparities have emerged by class and race in attitudes and behaviors surrounding family, sexuality, and reproduction. These disparities will likely fuel social and economic inequality and contribute to disparities in children’s life prospects for decades to come.

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March 18

POL1004F Tutorial 4. Economy And Social Class Library Guide

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UCT Libraries  POL1004F: Tutorial 4: 
THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

 
 
FROM CELIA: I have posted this guide here as it hasn't yet been posted on the Course web site.
 
Readings from Course textbook
1. Topics 

Economic systems

Class

Culture

2. Readings: Heywood, pp1 83-229

 

Tutorial topic: Has class conflict been resolved in modern

Capitalist societies?

 

Reference books:

Printed Reference books

 

O’Hara, P.A. ed. 1997.  The Encyclopedia of Political Economy.  2v.
CR 330.03 ENCY [Commerce Library]

There are several articles which may be of interest:

Class;

Class analysis of world capitalism, and

Classes of capitalism

 

SCHOLTE, J.A. and R. Robertson ed.  2007.  Encyclopedia of Globalization. 2v.
R 303.48203 ENCY

 

RITZER, G. ed.  2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell.
R 301.03 BLAC

          See articles on Capitalism and on Class

 

R 300.3 INTE
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam:  Elsevier, 2001. [Use the index]

 

Electronic Reference books

 

  1. Oxford Reference Online:

 

"institutionalization of (class) conflict"  A Dictionary of Sociology. John Scott and Gordon Marshall. Oxford University Press 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  University of Cape Town.  12 March 2008 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t88.e1128>

 

Erik Olin Wright "Class and Politics"   The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2e. Joel Krieger, ed. Oxford University Press Inc. 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.   University of Cape Town.  12 March  2008 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t121.e0130 >

 

"conflict theory"  A Dictionary of Sociology. John Scott and Gordon Marshall. Oxford University Press 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  University of CapeTown. 12 March 2008 

 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t88.e369>

 

  1. History Resource Centre: World

 

"SOCIAL CLASS." Encyclopedia of European Social History. 6 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

 

"Class Identities in Europe in the Twentieth Century." History in Dispute, Vol. 17: Twentieth-Century European Social and Political Movements. Paul du Quenoy, ed. St. James Press, 2004. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

 

 

Some Books on Class:

 

[Consult the Contents Pages and Indexes to see if these books are relevant]

 

305.5 VOGL

Vogler, Carolyn M., 1950
The Nation State: The Neglected Dimension of Class. Aldershot:           
Gower, c1985.

 
301.01 MASS
Masses, classes, and the public sphere / edited by Mike Hill  and Warren Montag.  London; New York: Verso, 2000.     

              
305.5 REPR
Re/presenting class: essays in postmodern Marxism /edited by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Resnick, Richard
D. Wolff.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

 

305.5 WATE
Waters, Malcolm, 1946-  
Class and stratification: arrangements for socioeconomic inequality under capitalism / Malcolm Waters.  Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire,1990

305.8 RACE
Race, nation, ethnos and class: quasi-groups and society / edited by Brian K. Taylor ; contributors, John Eade ... [et al.].  Brighton: Pennington Beech,1996.

303.484 SOCI
Social movements and social classes: the future of collective action / edited by Louis Maheu. London:
Sage, 1995

305.8 BALI
Balibar, Etienne, 1942-
Race, nation and class: ambiguous identities / Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein; translation of
Etienne Balibar by Chris Turner.  London: Verso, 1991

305.8 CALL
Callinicos, Alex
Race and class / Alex Callinicos.  London; Chicago: Bookmarks, 1993.

 
305.50094 MARS
Marshall, T. H (Thomas Humphrey)
Citizenship and social class / T.H. Marshall and T. Bottomore.  London: Pluto Press, 1992

 
305.5 BRIN
Bringing class back in: contemporary and historical  perspectives / edited by Scott G. McNall, Rhonda F.
Levine, Rick Fantasia.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1991

 
305.5 MILI
Miliband, Ralph
Divided societies: class struggle in contemporary capitalism / Ralph Miliband.  Oxford: Clarendon
Press New York: Oxford University Press, 1989

 
320.5322 LENI
Lenin reloaded: toward a politics of truth / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek, editors.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

306.3 TONK
Tonkiss, Fran.
Contemporary economic sociology: globalisation, production, inequality / Fran Tonkiss.  London; New
York: Routledge, 2006.

338.88 SKLA
Sklair, Leslie.
The transnational capitalist class / Leslie Sklair. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

335.4 LUKA
Lukacs, Gyorgy, 1885-1971.
A defence of history and class consciousness: tailism and the dialectic / Georg Lukacs; translated by
Esther Leslie; with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj eZiezek.  London New York:
Verso, 2000.

                          
321.809 GLAS
Glassman, Ronald M
The new middle class and democracy in global perspective / Ronald M. Glassman.  New York: St.
Martin's Press Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan,1997

 
338.74 SCOT
Scott, John
Corporate business and capitalist classes / John Scott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

 
305.55 HIDD
Kellner, Hansfried
Hidden technocrats: the new class and new capitalism /{edited by} Hansfried Kellner, Frank W. Heuberger.
New Brunswick, U.S.A: Transaction Publishers, c1992

 
330.122 ROSS
Ross, Robert J. S., 1943-
Global capitalism: the new leviathan / by Robert J.S. Ross and Kent C. Trachte.  Albany: State University
of New York Press, c1990

 

 
Full-text articles available via SocINDEX database

So, Alvin Y. "BEYOND THE LOGIC OF CAPITAL AND THE POLARIZATION MODEL." Critical Asian Studies 37, no. 3: 481-494. SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed March 12, 2008).

Merrifield, Andy. "Class Formation, Capital Accumulation, and the Downsizing of America." Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine 51, no. 5: 32. SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed March 12, 2008).

Morton, Adam David. "The Grimly Comic Riddle of Hegemony in IPE: Where is Class Struggle?." Politics 26, no. 1: 62-72. SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed March 12, 2008).

Arthur, Christopher J. The Inner Totality of Capitalism Brill Academic Publishers. SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed March 12, 2008).

Evans, M. D. R., Kelley, Jonathan, and Francis G. Castles. 2004. "Varieties of Capitalism and Class Conflict: Public Perceptions in 11 Nations." Conference Papers -- American Sociological Association: 1-51. SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed March 12, 2008).