The Shape of Social Inequality

This volume brings together the sociological scholarship of Archibald O. Haller to celebrate Haller's contribution to social studies and mobility. All of the chapters respond to Haller's programmatic agenda for stratification research: "A full program in the understanding of the first and second order. the different states and rates of change of dry structures; and third, that seeing some degree of stratification seems to be present everywhere, that in the IDENTIFY factors that make stratification structures change. " The contributors to this Festschrift address, alteration of the race, ethnicity, and gender issues. Many of the chapters adopt an explicitly cross-societal comparative perspective. The volume offers both conceptually and empirically important new analysies of the shape of social stratification.

Preface: Archibald Orben Haller, an Intellectual Portrait. (A. Portes). Introduction.
(DB Bills). Concepts for Social Stratification. Are There Any Big Classes at All?
(KA Weeden, DB Grusky). Spaces and Networks: Concepts for Social Stratification. (J. Woelfel, M. Murero). Some Demographic Aspects of Rurality. (GV Fuguitt). Applications in US Society. Assimilation in the American Society: Occupational Achievement and Earnings for Ethnic Minorities in the United States, 1970 to 1990. (CM Snipp, C. Hirschman). Changes in the Structure of Status Systems: Employment Shifts in the Wake of Deindustrialization. (WJ Haller). Physical and Mental Health. Status of Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective. (M. Kleykamp, M. Tienda). The Black-White Achievement Gap in the First Year of the Year: Evidence from a New Longitudinal Case Study.
(KI Spenner, C. Buchmann, LR Landerman). Comparative Applications. Status Allocation in Village India. (BD Sharda). The Future of Gender in Mexico and the United States: Economic Transformation and Changing Definitions. (P. Fenandez-Kelly).
Do Ethnic Enclaves Benefit or Harm Linguistically Isolated Employees? (MDR Evans).
Economic Change and the Legitimation of Inequality: The Transition from Socialism to the Free Market in Central-East Europe. (J. Kelley, K. Zagorski). Race, Socioeconomic Development and the Educational Stratification Process in Brazil. (D. Cireno Fernandes).
Labor Force Classes and the Earnings Determination of the Farm Population in Brazil: 1973, 1982, and 1988. (JA Neves).