Reading List - Stratification
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Social Stratification Preliminary Examination Reading List
Department of Sociology, Emory University
June 2008
Note: “in Grusky” refers to selections in both the second (2001) and third (2008) editions of:
For excerpts from Grusky, students are encouraged to identify and consult the original works to ascertain the broader contexts of the excerpts.
I. The Structure of Social Stratification
Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. “Measuring the Status of Occupations” (in Grusky)
Dahrendorf, Ralf. 1959. “Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society” (in Grusky)
Durkheim, Emile. “The Division of Labor in Society” (in Grusky)
Giddens, Anthony. 1973. “The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies” (in Grusky)
Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism & Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Grusky, David B. 2001. “The Past, Present, and Future of Social Inequality” (in Grusky) (Note: In the third edition of Grusky’s reader, an updated version of this essay is called “Gloom, Doom, and Inequality.”)
Grusky, David B. and Jesper B. Sorensen. 1998. “Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged?” American Journal of Sociology 103:1187-1234.
Hauser, Robert M. and John Robert Warren. 1997. “Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique.” Sociological Methodology 27:177-298.
Marx, Karl. “Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism;” “Ideology and Class” (in Grusky)
Mills, C. Wright. 1956. “The Power Elite” (in Grusky)
Parkin, Frank. 1979. “Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique” (in Grusky)
Weber, Max. “Class, Status, Party;” “Status Groups and Classes” (in Grusky)
Wright, Erik Olin. 1997. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapters 1-3]
II. Is Stratification Inevitable and Positively Functional?
Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert E. Moore. 1945. “Some Principles of Stratification.” American Sociological Review 10:242-9.
Fischer, Claude S., Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. 1996. Inequality By Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Herrnstein, Richard J. and Charles Murray. 1994. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. New York: Free Press. [Introduction and Chapter 13]
Lenski, Gerhard. 2001. “New Light on Old Issues: The Relevance of ‘Really Existing Socialist Societies’ for Stratification Theory” (in Grusky)
Tumin, Melvin M. 1953. “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis.” American Sociological Review 18:387-94.
III. Status Attainment and Social Mobility
Becker, Gary S. 1993. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education (Third Edition). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. New York: Wiley.
Corcoran, Mary. 1995. “Rags to Rags: Poverty and Mobility in the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology 21:237-67.
Featherman, David L. and Robert M. Hauser. 1978. “A Refined Model of Occupational Mobility” (in Grusky)
Jencks, Christopher. 1979. Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. New York: Basic Books.
MacLeod, Jay. 1995. Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Morgan, Stephen L., David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields. 2006. Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Piore, Michael J. 1970. “The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications” (in Grusky)
Sewell, William H., Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes. 1969. “The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process.” American Sociological Review 34:82-92.
Smith, Michael R. 1990. “What is New in ‘New Structuralist’ Analyses of Earnings?” American Sociological Review 55:827-41.
Sørensen, Aage B. 1990. “Throwing the Sociologists Out? A Reply to Smith.” American Sociological Review 55:842-45.
Sørensen, Aage B. and Arne L. Kalleberg. 1981. “An Outline of a Theory of the Matching of Persons to Jobs” (in Grusky)
IV. Sources and Consequences of Class, Racial/Ethnic, and Gender Stratification
Adelman, Robert M. and Charles Jaret. 1999. “Poverty, Race, and U.S. Metropolitan Social and Economic Structure.” Journal of Urban Affairs 21:35-56.
Alderson, Arthur S. and François Nielsen. 2002. “Globalization and the Great U-Turn: Income Inequality Trends in 16 OECD Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 107:1244-1299.
Aldridge, Delores P. 2005. “African American Women since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race.” Pp. 395-411 in A Companion to African American History, edited by Alton Hornsby, Jr. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Aldridge, Delores P. 2000. “On Race and Culture: Beyond Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism to Cultural Democracy.” Sociological Focus 33:95-107.
Aponte, Robert. 1991. “Urban Hispanic Poverty.” Social Problems 38:516-528.
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.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. “Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction.” Pp. 487-511 in Power and Ideology in Education, edited by J. Karabel and A. H. Halsey. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. New York: Basic Books.
Burawoy, Michael. 1979. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Clayton, Obie Jr. (editor). 1996. An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing World. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Second Edition). New York: Routledge.
Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press.
Collins, Randall. 1971. “Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification.” American Sociological Review 36:1002-1019.
Conley, Dalton. 1999. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cox, Oliver C. [1948] 1959. Caste, Class, & Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. New York: Monthly Review Press. [Chapters 14, 19, 21]
Davis, Angela Y. 1983. Women, Race, & Class. New York: Vintage Books.
DuBois, W.E.B. [1897] 1971. “The Talented Tenth.” In A W.E.B. DuBois Reader, edited by Andrew G. Paschal. New York: Macmillan.
DuBois, W.E.B. [1899] 1973. The Philadelphia Negro. Millwood, NY: Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd. [Chapters 2, 12]
DuBois, W.E.B. [1903] 1993. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Knopf. [Chapters 3, 5, 6, 9]
Duncan, Greg J. and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (editors). 1997. Consequences of Growing Up Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. [Chapter 1]
England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. [Chapter 2]
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Chapter 3]
Feagin, Joe R. 1991. “The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places.” American Sociological Review 56:101-16.
Fligstein, Neil. 1981. Going North: Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South, 1900-1950. New York: Academic Press.
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]
Goodin, Robert E., Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, and Henk-Jan Dirven. 1999. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapters 1-9, 16]
Gordon, Linda (editor). 1990. Women, the State, and Welfare. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Gustafsson, Bjorn and Mats Johansson. 1999. “In Search of Smoking Guns: What Makes Income Inequality Vary over Time in Different Countries?” American Sociological Review 64:585-605.
Harrington Meyer, Madonna. 1994. “Gender, Race, and the Distribution of Social Assistance: Medicaid Use Among the Frail Elderly.” Gender and Society 8:8-28.
Harrison, Bennett and Barry Bluestone. 1988. The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America. New York: Basic Books.
Hartmann, Heidi. 1976. “Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex.” Signs 1:137-69.
Hughes, Michael and Melvin E. Thomas. 1998. “The Continuing Significance of Race Revisited: A Study of Race, Class, and Quality of Life in America, 1972 to 1996.” American Sociological Review 63:785-95.
Johnson, Heather Beth. 2006. The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity. New York: Routledge.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.
Keister, Lisa A. and Stephanie Moller. 2000. “Wealth Inequality in the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:63-81.
Kohn, Melvin L., Atsushi Naoi, Carrie Schoenbach, Carmi Schooler, and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 1990. “Position in the Class Structure and Psychological Functioning in the United States, Japan, and Poland.” American Journal of Sociology 95:964-1008.
Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67:747-76.
Lareau, Annette. 1987. “Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital.” Sociology of Education 60:73-85.
Lee, Sharon M. 1994. “Poverty and the U.S. Asian Population.” Social Science Quarterly 75:541-59.
Lerner, Gerda (editor). 1992. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage Books.
Lieberson, Stanley. 1980. A Piece of the Pie: Black and White Immigrants Since 1880. Berkeley: University of California Press.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. 1989. Toward A Feminist Theory of the State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Marable, Manning. 1983. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society. Boston: South End Press.
Massey, Douglas S. 2007. Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Morris, Martina and Bruce Western. 1999. “Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 25:623-657.
Myrdal, Gunnar. 1944. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Oliver, Melvin L. and Thomas M. Shapiro. 1995. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Second Edition). New York: Routledge.
Pager, Devah and Lincoln Quillian. 2005. “What Employers Say Versus What They Do.” American Sociological Review 70:355-80.
Park, Robert E. 1914. “Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups: With Particular Reference to the Negro.” American Journal of Sociology 19:606-23.
Piven, Francis Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 1971. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare. New York: Pantheon Books.
Quadagno, Jill S. 1994. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rank, Mark Robert. 2005. One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rankin, Bruce H. and James M. Quane. 2000. “Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families.” Social Forces 79:139-64.
Risman, Barbara J. 1998. Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Steinberg, Stephen. 2001. The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America (Third Edition). Boston: Beacon Press.
Thomas, Melvin. 1993. “Race, Class and Personal Income: An Empirical Test of the Declining Significance of Race.” Social Problems 40:328-42.
Van Den Berghe, Pierre L. 1978. “Race and Ethnicity: A Sociobiological Perspective.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 1:401-11.
Weeden, Kim A. 2002. “Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others?” American Journal of Sociology 108:55-101.
Wilson, George (editor). 2005. “Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the Workplace: Evolving Issues.” The American Behavioral Scientist 48(9) (entire May 2005 issue).
Wilson, William Julius. 1978. The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Chapters 1 and 7]
Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Urban Poverty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, William Julius. 1996. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Vintage.
Wolff, Edward N. 2002. Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can be Done About It (Updated and Expanded Edition). New York: New Press.
Various authors. 2005. All of Vol. 28, No. 6 of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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