The number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait ...(展开全部)

The number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait ...(展开全部)

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

The study of poverty and inequality has been thrust into the foreground as scholars and policymakers respond to the spectacular increase in economic inequality and the slowing or reversal of long-standing downward trends in other forms of inequality. The Grusky Social Stratification reader, which has been the mainstay of the field for more than a decade, has now been revised ...(展开全部)

马尔科姆·M.菲利（Maloolm.M.Feeley）加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校“法和社会学研究中心”主任、法学教授，希伯莱大学、神户大学和普林斯顿大学客座教授，曾在耶鲁大学法学院担任研究学者，曾执教于纽约大学和威斯康星大学。其凭借本书曾获得1 980年美国律师协会“银法槌奖”和B1985年国社会学协会表彰。主要著作：《关于审判的法院改革》（Court Reform on Trial）、《政策两难》（The Policy Dilemma）、《刑事司法》（Criminal Justice）、《司法政策制定和现代国家》（Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State）、《联邦主义：政治身份与可悲的妥协》（Federalism：Political Identity and Tragic Compromise）。 魏晓娜...(展开全部)

（美）安妮特·拉鲁（Annette Lareau，1952— ），美国宾夕法尼亚大学社会学系 Stanley I. Sheerr教授，2012年当选美国社会学协会主席。主要研究领域为社会分层、家庭教育、儿童，主要关注非裔美国人和欧裔美国人的日常生活研究。本书为其代表作。

In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and sty...(展开全部)