Russell Sage Foundation: 45 books
Unequal Time
Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Life is unpredictable. Control over one’s time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredictability, keeping a job, and raising a family. But the ability to control one’s time, much like one’s income, is determined to a significant degree by both gender and class. In Unequal Time, sociologists...
Cycle of Segregation
Social Processes and Residential Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years later, residential segregation remains virtually unchanged in many metropolitan areas, particularly where large groups of racial and ethnic...
Too Many Children Left Behind
The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The belief that with hard work and determination, all children have the opportunity to succeed in life is a cherished part of the American Dream. Yet, increased inequality in America has made that dream more difficult for many to obtain. In Too Many Children Left Behind, an international team of social...
Spheres of Influence
The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The black-white divide has long haunted the United States as a driving force behind social inequality. Yet, the civil rights movement, the increase in immigration, and the restructuring of the economy in favor of the rich over the last several decades have begun to alter the contours of inequality....
The Long Shadow
Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area...
by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living in more dangerous neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools,...
Homeward
Life in the Year After Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines...
Who Will Care For Us?
Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The number of elderly and disabled adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities is expected to double over the next twenty-five years. As a result, direct care workers such as home care aides and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) will become essential to many more families. Yet these...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Many working families continue to struggle in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the deepest and longest economic downturn since the Great Depression. In Children of the Great Recession, a group of leading scholars draw from a unique study of nearly 5,000 economically and ethnically diverse families...
Parents Without Papers
The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the...
Weathering Katrina
Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese-American enclave was a remote, low-income area that flooded badly. Many residents arrived decades earlier as refugees from the Vietnam War and were marginally fluent in English. Yet, despite these poor odds of success, the...
From High School to College
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college. However, only one-third of Americans hold a bachelor’s degree, and college graduation rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. If most young adults aspire to obtain a college degree,...
by Suzanne Mettler
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the boom in standardized test scores and charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option....