David Grusky: 4 books
The Inequality Reader
Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how...
Inequality in the 21st Century
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have proven very adaptive and can flourish even today in the 21st century.
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Social Stratification
Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
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.