Social Class Comprehensive Exam Reading List

SOCIAL CLASS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST SOCIOLOGY (PHD) Kent State University – University of Akron

THEORY

Bourdieu, Pierre. 2001. “Distinction.” Pp. 499-525 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Chase -Dunn, C., and P. Grimes. 1995. “World Systems Analysis.” Annual Review of Sociology 21: 387-417.

Dahrendorf, Ralf. 1959. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Stanford U. Press.

Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert Moore. 1945. "Some Principles of Stratification." American Sociological Review 10:242-249.

Durkheim, Emile. 2001."The Division of Labor in Society." Pp. 178-83 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Erickson, Robert and John H. Goldthorpe. 1992. The Constant Flux. Oxford:Clarendon Press, pp.35-47.

Giddens, Anthony. 2001."The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies." Pp. 152-82 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International. Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

Kingston, Paul W. 1994. “Are There Classes in the United States?” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: 13: 3-41.

Lamont, Michele and Lareau, Annette. 1988. Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments. Sociological Theory 6(2), 153-168.

Lenski, Gerhard. 1984. Power and Privilege. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

1 Marx, Karl. Pp. 87-105 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. “Alienation and Social Classes”; “Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism”; “Ideology and Class”; “Value and Surplus Value.”

Parkin, Frank. 2001. "Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique." Pp. 162-77 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Poulantzas, Nicos. 1982. “ On Social Classes.” Pp. 101-111 in Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates, edited by Anthony Giddens and David Held. Berkeley: U of California. [Abridged from New Left Review, 1973, vol 78.]

Reskin, Barbara F. 2003. "Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality." American Sociological Review 68:1-21.

Sallaz, Jeffrey J. and Jane Zavisca. 2007. “Bourdieu in American Sociology, 1980-2004.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 21-41.

Sorensen, Aage B. 2000. “Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis” American Journal of Sociology 105:1523-1591 (includes responses by Wright, Goldthorpe, and Rueschmeyer & Mahoney).

Sorenson, Aage B. 2001. “The Basic Concepts of Stratification Research: A Review, Update, and Critique.” Pp. 287-300 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Swartz, David. 1997. Culture & Power: the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. -- Chapter 4: Bourdieu's Political Economy of Symbolic Power.

Tumin, Melvin M. 2001. “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis.” Pp. 65- 73 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2007. “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis.” Pp. 580-595 in Sociological Theory in the Contemporary Era, edited by Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.

Weber, Max. 2001. Pp. 132-52. in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. “Class, Status, Party”; “Status Groups and Classes”; “Open and Closed Relationships”; “The Rationalization of Education and Training.”

2 Wright, Erik O. 1985. “The Biography of a Concept: Contradictory Class Locations.” Pp. 19-6 in E. O. Wright, Classes. London: Verso.

Wright, Erik O. 1997. Class Counts. NY: Cambridge University Press, Chapters 1 and 3.

Wright, Erik.O. (ed.). 2005. Approaches to Class Analysis. NY: Cambridge University Press.

STATUS ATTAINMENT – MOBILITY

Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan, with Andrea Tyree, “Measuring the Status of Occupations.” Pp. 255-259 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Social Class Comprehensive Examination Reading List 3

Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan, with Andrea Tyree. “The Process of Stratification.” Pp. 390-403 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

Elman, Cheryl; O'Rand, Angela M. 2004. “The Race Is to the Swift: Socioeconomic Origins, Adult Education, and Wage Attainment.” American Journal of Sociology, 110, 1, July, 123-160

Ganzeboom, Harry B. G., et al. 1991. “Comparative Intergenerational Stratification Research: Three Generations and Beyond.” Annual Review of Sociology 17: 277-302.

Goldman, Robert, and Ann Tickamyer. 1984. "Status Attainment and the Commodity Form." American Sociological Review 49: 196-209.

Grusky, David, and Robert Hauser. 1984. “Comparative Social Mobility Revisited: Models of Convergence and Divergence in 16 Countries.” American Sociological Review 49:19-38.

Horan, Patrick. 1978. "Is Status Attainment Research Atheoretical?" American Sociological Review 43: 534-541.

Mare, Robert D. “Observations on the Study of Social Mobility and Inequality.” Pp. 477- 488 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology, 24:1-24.

3 Sewell, William H., et al. “The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process.” Pp.410-421 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

Warren, John Robert and Robert M. Hauser. 1997. “Social Stratification Across Three Generations: New Evidence From the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” American Sociological Review 62:561-572.

Western, Mark. 1994. “Class Structure and Intergenerational Class Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of Class and Gender.” Social Forces 73: 101-134. Includes two comments: Kingston, Paul. 1996. “The Implications of Intergenerational Class Mobility for Class Theory: A Comment on Western.” Social Forces 75:323-27. Western, Mark. 1996. “Intergenerational Mobility and Class Theory: A Reply to Kingston.” Social Forces 75:329-334.

POWER, POVERTY, AND WEALTH

Aponte, Robert. 1990. "Definitions of the Underclass: A Critical Analysis." Pp. 117-37 in Sociology in America: American Sociological Association Presidential Series, edited by Herbert Gans. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Bianchi, Suzanne. 1999. “Feminization and Juvenilization of Poverty.” Annual Review of Sociology 25: 307-334.

Corcoran, M. 1995. “Rags to Riches: Poverty and Mobility in the U.S.” Annual Review of Sociology 21:237-267.

Domhoff, G. William, 2010. Who Rules America? Challenged to Corporate and Class Dominance. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Gans, Herbert. 1972. “The Positive Functions of Poverty.” American Journal of Sociology 78: 275-289.

Johnson, Allan. 2006. Privilege, Power, and Difference. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Keister, Lisa and Stephanie Moller. 2000. “Wealth Inequality in the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology. 26, 63-81.

Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. “American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.” Pp. 660-670 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

4 Mills, C. Wright. “The Power Elite.” Pp. 202-211 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

Newman, Katherine, and R. P. Massengill. 2006. “The Texture of Hardship: Qualitative Sociology of Poverty, 1995-2005.” Annual Review of Sociology 33:423-446,

Oliver, Melvin and Thomas Shapiro. 1995. “Wealth and Inequality in America,” and “A Story of Two Nations: Race and Wealth.” Pp. 67-90 and 91-125 in Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Piven, Francis Fox, and Richard Cloward. 1971. Regulating the Poor. NY: Pantheon Books.

Seccombe, Karen. 2000. “Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences and Lessons Learned.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 1094- 1113.

Spilerman, Seymour. 2000. "Wealth and Stratification Processes." Annual Review of Sociology 26:497-524.

Wolff, Edward. 1995. Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It. NY: The New Press.

Wright, E. O. 1994. “The Class Analysis of Poverty.” Pp. 32-50 in Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism. London: Verso.

REPRODUCTION: EDUCATION, CULTURAL CAPITAL, AND SOCIALIZATION

Aries, Elizabeth and Maynard Seider. 2005. “The Interactive Relationship Between Class Identity and College Experience: The Case of Lower Income Students.” Qualitative Sociology 28, 4, 419-43.

Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America. NY: Basic Books, Chapters 4-5.

DiMaggio, Paul. 1982. Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students. American Sociological Review 47(2), 189-201.

Erickson, Bonnie H. 1996. "Culture, Class, and Connections." American Journal of Sociology 102:217-251.

5 Kao, Grace and Jennifer S. Thompson. 2003. “Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Educational Achievement and Attainment.” Annual Review of Sociology 29: 417-442.

Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lareau, Annette and Dalton Conley (Eds.). 2008. SOCIAL CLASS: How Does It Work? New York: Russell Sage.

McLeod, Jay. 2009. Ain’t No Making It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood 3rd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Persell, Caroline Hodges and Peter Coockson Jr. 1985. “Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social Reproduction.” Social Problems. 33(2): 114-39.

Stuber, Jenny M. 2005. “Asset and Liability? The Importance of Context in the Occupational Experiences of Upwardly Mobile White Adults.” Sociological Forum 20(1)” 139-66.

Turner, Ralph. 1960. "Sponsored and Contested Mobility and the School System." American Sociological Review 25(6): 855-867. (ALSO IN David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.)

Veblen, Thorstein. “The Theory of the Leisure Class.” Pp. 491-498 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

Althauser, Robert. 1989. “Internal Labor Markets.” Annual Review of Sociology 15:143- 161.

Baron, James and William Bielby. 1980. "Bringing the Firms Back In: Stratification, Segmentation, and the Organization of Work." American Sociological Review 49:737-65.

Beck, E. M., et al. 1978. "Stratification in a Dual Economy." American Sociological Review 43: 704-720.

Braverman, Harry. 1982. "Capitalism and the Division of Labor." Pp. 148-156 in Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates, edited by Anthony Giddens and David Held. Berkeley, CA: University of California.

Burawoy, Michael. 1979. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago.

6 Edwards, Richard. 1979. Pp. 16-22, 25-7, 30-6, 113-5, 122-9, 130-52 in Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books.

Kohn, Melvin. 1969. Class and Conformity. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press.

Maume, David J. 2004. "Wage Discrimination over the Life Course: A Comparison of Explanations." Social Problems 51:505-527.

Newman, Katherine S. 1988. “Rejected Managers and the Culture of Meritocracy.” Pp. 42-94 in Falling From Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. New York: Free Press.

Newman, Katherine and Catherine Ellis. 1999. “There's No Shame in My Game": Status and Stigma among Harlem's Working Poor. Pp 151-181 in The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited by M. Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Piore, Michael. 1975. "Notes for a Theory of Labor Market Segmentation." Pp. 125-71 in Labor Market Segmentation, edited by Richard Edwards, Michael Reich, and David Gordon. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath.

Reskin, Barbara. 1988. "Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work." Gender & Society 2: 58-81.

Reskin, Barbara, Debra McBrier, and Julie Kmec. 1999. “The Determinants and Consequences of Workplace Sex and Race Composition.” Annual Review of Sociology 25: 335-361.

Sennet, Richard, and Jonathan Cobb. 1973. The Hidden Injuries of Class. New York: Vintage Books.

Smith, Michael. 1990. “What’s New in the ‘New Structuralist’ Analysis of Earnings?” American Sociological Review 55:827-841 (see following comment by Sorenson).

Stark, David. 1980. “Class Struggle and the Transformation of the Labour Process: A Relational Approach.” Theory and Society 9:89-130.

GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS

Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender & Society 4: 139-158.

Bonacich, Edna. 1972. “A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market.” American Sociological Review 37: 547-559.

7 Elo, Irma T. 2009. “Social Class Differentials in Health and Mortality: Patterns and Explanations in Comparative Perspective. Annual Review of Sociology 35:553-572.

Feagin, Joe and Clairece Booher Feagin. 1978. "Institutionalized Discrimination." Pp. 19- 41 in Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism. Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger.

Lamont, Michele. 1999. “Above ‘People Above’? Status and Worth Among White and Black Workers” pp. 127-150 in The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries. Michele Lamont (ed). 1999. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Leicht, Kevin T. 2008. “Broken Down by Race and Gender? Sociological Explanations of New Sources of Earnings Inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology 34:237-255.

McQuillan, Julia and Myra Marx Ferree. 1998. "Gender-Based Pay Gaps: Institutional Versus Individual Models." Gender & Society 12(1): 7-39.

Pearce, Diana. 1993. “Something Old, Something New: Women’s Poverty in the 1990s.” Pp. 79-97 in American Women in the Nineties: Today’s Critical Issues, edited by Sherri Matteo. Boston: Northeastern University.

Reskin, Barbara and Patricia Roos. 1987. "Status Hierarchies and Sex Segregation." Pp. 3-23 in Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy, edited by Christine Bose and Glenna Spitze. Albany, NY: State University of New York.

Small, Mario Luis; Newman, Katherine. 2001. “Urban Poverty after The Truly Disadvantaged: The Rediscovery of the Family, the Neighborhood, and Culture.” Annual Review of Sociology. 2001, 27, 23-45.

Sorenson, Annemette 1994. “Women, Family, and Class.” Annual Review of Sociology. 20:27-47.

Wilson, William Julius. 1980. “The Declining Significance of Race; Blacks and Changing American Institutions.” Pp. 611-623 in David Grusky (ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

LEGITIMACY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

Collom, Ed. 2001. “Social Inequality and the Politics of Production: Identifying Potential Supporters of Economic Democracy.” Sociological Forum 16(3): 471-501.

Della Fave, Richard. 1980. “The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth: Self-Evaluation and the Legitimacy of Stratification.” American Sociological Review 45:955-971.

8 Jackman, Mary R., and Robert W. Jackman. 1983. Class Awareness in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Johnson, Cathryn, Timothy J. Dowd, and Cecilia L. Ridgeway. 2006. “Legitimacy as a Social Process.” Annual Review of Sociology 32: 53-78.

Kerbo, Harold. 2003. “The Process of Legitimation.” Pp. 418-446 in Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Comparative, and Global Perspective. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Klugel, James, and Eliot R. Smith. 1986. Beliefs about Inequality. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.