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Stratification and Social Inequality Reading List *DISCLAIMER: Students planning to take the preliminary exam should verify with the graduate coordinator that the posted reading list is the most up to date version before they begin studying. Stratification Preliminary Exam Reading List—Unformatted Draft Revised for 2016-2017 Note: Within each section (Foundations, Race, Class, Gender, and Intersectionality), there are readings that cover to some degree the following social institutions and other sociological concepts: family, education, sexuality, comparative/global, government/the state, attitudinal research, religion, and collective behavior. FOUNDATIONS IN STRATIFICATION Note: The Foundations section of this list covers the following: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, neo- Marxists, neo-Weberians, neo-Durkheimians, the roots of American sociology/stratification, articles/books that deal broadly in the sociological study of stratification, and the history of stratification and inequality. Block, Fred and Margaret R. Somers. 2014. The Power of Market Fundamentalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Cox, Oliver C. [1948] 1959. Caste, Class, & Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. New York: Monthly Review Press. (Chapters 14, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25) Dahrendorf, Ralf. 2014. “Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society.” Pp. 143–49 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert E. Moore. 1945. “Some Principles of Stratification.” American Sociological Review 10(2):242–49. Domhoff, William. 2014. “Who Rules America?” Pp. 297–302 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Durkheim, Emile. 2014. “The Division of Labor in Society.” Pp. 217–22 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Giddens, Anthony. 2014a. “Elites and Power.” Pp. 292–96 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Giddens, Anthony. 2014b. “The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies.” Pp. 183–92 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Kenworthy, Lane. 2007. “Inequality and Sociology.” American Behavioral Scientist 50(5):584–602. Lenski, Gerhard Emmanuel. 1966. Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification. North Carolina: UNC Press Books. 1 Marx, Karl. 2014a. “Alienation and Social Classes.” Pp. 127–31 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Marx, Karl. 2014b. “Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism.” Pp. 131–41 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Marx, Karl. 2014c. “Ideology and Class.” Pp. 141–49 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Mills, C. Wright. 1999. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Kn_OAuktbq4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=mills+ the+power+elite&ots=tHwBrJx6Ue&sig=q_PmsdZ7GRUlc7q3pdIUDB1379M). Sewell, William. 1992. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency and Transformation. American Journal of Sociology. 98:1-29. Tumin, Melvin M. 1953. “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis.” American Sociological Review 18(4):387–94. Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1979. The Capitalist World-Economy. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5GppqmU13pIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=imma nuel+wallerstein&ots=kb4rCbgf4e&sig=0JwlWfDx3NRNUD_qPkIh4cBaEPc). Weber, Max. 2014a. “Class, Status, Party.” Pp. 165–74 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Weber, Max. 2014b. “Open and Closed Relationships.” Pp. 179–82 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Weber, Max. 2014c. “Status Groups and Classes.” Pp. 175–78 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Wright, Erik Olin. 2002. “The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis.” American Sociological Review 67(6):832–53. Wright, Erik Olin. 2014. “A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure.” Pp. 149–61 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by D. B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2 RACE AND ETHNICITY Racialization and Creation of Racial and Ethnic Categories Almaguer, Tomas. 1994. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Cainkar, Louise A. 2009. Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. [Chapters 1-2] Cornell, Stephen, and Douglas Hartmann. 2007. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge. [Chapter 2] Davis, Angela. 1981. Women, Race & Class. New York: Vintage Books. DuBois, W.E.B. [1903] 1993. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Knopf. [Chapters 3, 5, 6, 9] DuBois, W.E.B. [1897] 1971. “The Talented Tenth.” In A W.E.B. DuBois Reader, edited by Andrew G. Paschal. New York: Macmillan. Franklin, John Hope and Alfred A. Moss. 1994. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Seventh Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill. [Chapters 13, 16, 19, 20] Hall, Stuart. 1980. "Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance." in Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism. Paris: UNESCO. Harris, Cheryl I. 1993. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review. 106(8): 1710-1791. Lewis, Amanda. 2003. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Montagu, Ashley. 1962. “The Concept of Race.” American Anthropologist. 64 (5), part 1: 919-928. Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 2015. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Third Edition). New York: Routledge. Thornton, Russell. 1987. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. [Chapters 1-2] Tuan, Mia. 1998. Forever foreigners or honorary Whites?: The Asian ethnic experience today. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Wade, Peter. 1997. “The Meaning of ‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity.’” Pp. 5-24 in Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. London: Pluto Press. 3 The Incorporation of Racial and Ethnic Groups Blauner, Robert. 1969. “Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Revolt.” Social Problems 16:393-408. Blauner, Robert. 1972. Racial Oppression in America. New York: Harper and Row. [Chapter 2] Bonacich, Edna. 1972. “A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market.” American Sociological Review 37:547-59. Gordon, Milton M. 1960. “Assimilation in America: Theory and Reality.” Daedalus. 90: 262- 285. Kim, Claire. (1999). “The racial triangulation of Asian Americans.” Politics & Society. 27(1):103-136. Loewen, James. 1988. The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lopez, David and Yen Espiritu. 1990. “Panethnicity in the United States: a theoretical framework.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 13(2):198-224. Steinberg, Stephen. 2001. The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America (Third Edition). Boston: Beacon Press. Race and Class Collins, Sharon M. 1996. Black Corporate Executives: The Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Conley, Dalton. 1999. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America. Univ of California Press. Retrieved March 22, 2016 (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Ij1XXs8oK4IC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq= dalton+conley+being+black&ots=25Bb4XGwyw&sig=m2pvHFnvmyB5QlklkDCJxeiZo WE). DuBois, W.E.B. [1899] 1973. The Philadelphia Negro. Millwood, NY: Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. [Chapters 2, 12] Gould, Mark. 1999. “Race and Theory: Culture, Poverty, and Adaptation to discrimination in Wilson and Ogbu.” Sociological Theory. 17(2):171-200. Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. “Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation and Devalutation across U.S. Labor Markets.” American Journal of Sociology 109(4):902–36. Johnson, Heather Beth. 2015. The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge. 4 Jung, Moon-Kie. 2006. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Kirschenman, Joleen and Kathryn Neckerman. 1991. ‘We'd Love to Hire Them, but ...’: The Meaning of Race for Employers.” In Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson, The Urban Underclass. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institute. Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67:747-76. MacLeod, Jay. 1995. Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
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