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Stratification Preliminary Examination Reading List

Department of Sociology, Emory University

Fall 2006 – Spring 2007

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Note: “in Grusky” refers to selections in:

Grusky, David B. (editor). 2001. Social Stratification: Class, Race, & Gender in Sociological Perspective (Second Edition). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

I. The Structure of Social Stratification

Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism & Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grusky, “The Past, Present, and Future of Social Inequality” (p. 1 in Grusky)

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.

Wright, Erik Olin. 1997. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapters 1-3]

Various authors, all of Part III in Grusky (pp. 87-300)

II. Is Stratification Inevitable?

Davis and Moore, “Some Principles of Stratification” (p. 55 in Grusky)

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, “New Light on Old Issues: The Relevance of ‘Really Existing Socialist Societies’ for Stratification Theory” (p. 77 in Grusky)

Tumin, “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis” (p. 65 in Grusky)

III. Generating Stratification

 

A. 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 and Hauser, “A Refined Model of Occupational Mobility” (p. 325 in Grusky)

Gottschalk, “Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts” (p. 373 in Grusky)

Gottschalk, McLanahan, and Sandefur, “The Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Welfare Participation” (p. 378 in Grusky)

Jencks, Christopher. 1979. Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. New York: Basic Books.

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, “The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications” (p. 435 in Grusky)

Sewell, Haller, and Portes, “The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process” (p. 410 in Grusky)

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.

Sorensen and Kalleberg, “An Outline of a Theory of the Matching of Persons to Jobs” (p. 438 in Grusky)

B. Occupations and Labor Markets

Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender & Society 4:139-58.

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.

Blau, Francine D., Mary C. Brinton, and David B. Grusky (editors). 2006. The Declining Significance of Gender? New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Bonacich, Edna. 1972. “A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market.” American Sociological Review 37:547-59.

Browne, Irene (editor). 1999. Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Browne, Irene and Joya Misra. 2003. “The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:487-513.

Cancio, A. Silvia, T. David Evans, and David J. Maume, Jr. 1996. “Reconsidering the Declining Significance of Race: Racial Differences in Early Career Wages.” American Sociological Review 61:541-56.

Charles, Maria and David B. Grusky (editors). 2004. Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [Chapters 5 and 9]

Cotter, David A., Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman. 2004. “Gender Inequality at Work.” In The American People: Census 2000, edited by Reynolds Farley and John Haaga. New York: Russell Sage.

England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. [Chapters 1-3]

England, Paula, Jennifer Thompson, and Carolyn Aman. 2001. “The Sex Gap in Pay and Comparable Worth: An Update.” Pp. 551-565 in Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes, edited by Ivar Berg and Arne L. Kalleberg. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Estrada, Leobardo F., et al. 1981. “Chicanos in the United States: A History of Exploitation and Resistance.” Daedalus 110:103-32.

Farkas, George and Kevin Vicknair. 1996. “Appropriate Tests of Racial Wage Discrimination Require Controls for Cognitive Skill: Comment on Cancio, Evans, and Maume.” American Sociological Review 61:557-60. (Also, reply by Cancio et al., pp. 561-564)

Granovetter, Mark. 1995. Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (Second Edition). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2001. Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.

Kilbourne, England, Farkas, Beron, and Weir, “Returns to Skill, Compensating Differentials, and Gender Bias: Effects of Occupational Characteristics on the Wages of White Women and Men” (p. 761 in Grusky)

Kirschenman, Joleen and Kathryn M. Neckerman. 1991. “‘We’d Love to Hire Them But…’ The Meaning of Race for Employers.” Pp. 203-32 in The Urban Underclass, edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Light, Ivan. 1984. “Immigrant and Ethnic Enterprise in North America.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 7:195-216.

Marini and Fan, “The Gender Gap in Earnings at Career Entry” (p. 743 in Grusky)

McCall, Leslie. 2001. Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy. New York: Routledge.

Pager, Devah and Lincoln Quillian. 2005. “What Employers Say Versus What They Do.” American Sociological Review 70:355-80.

Peterson and Morgan, “The Within-Job Gender Wage Gap” (p. 734 in Grusky)

Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick. 1985. “Unwelcome Immigrants: Labor Market Experiences of Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida.” American Sociological Review 50:493-514.

Reskin, Barbara F. and Patricia A. Roos. 1990. Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Tam, “Why Do Female Occupations Pay Less?” (p. 776 in Grusky)

Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald. 1993. Gender & Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. [Chapters 1-5]

Weeden, Kim A. 2002. “Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others?” American Journal of Sociology 108:55-101.

Werum, Regina. 2002. “Matching Youth and Jobs? Gender Dynamics in New Deal Job Training Programs.” Social Forces 81472-503.

Wolkinson, Benjamin W. 1994. “Recruitment and Selection of Workers in Israel.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 17:260-81.

Zhou, Min and John Logan. 1989. “Returns on Human Capital in Ethnic Enclaves: New York City's Chinatown.” American Sociological Review 54:809-20.

C. Education

 

Aldridge, Delores P. 1978. “Litigation and Education of Blacks: A Look at the U.S. Supreme Court.” Journal of Negro Education 47:96-112.

Alexander, Karl L. 1997. “Public Schools and the Public Good.” Social Forces 76:1-30.

Anderson, James D. 1988. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Boudon, Raymond. 1974. Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality: Changing Prospects in Western Society. New York: Wiley.

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.

Buchmann, Claudia and Emily Hannum. 2001. “Education and Stratification in Developing Countries: A Review of Theories and Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 27:77-102.

Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley. 2002. “Equal But Separate? A Cross-National Study of Sex Segregation in Higher Education.” American Sociological Review 67:573-99.

Collins, Randall. 1971. “Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification.” American Sociological Review 36:1002-1019.

Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press.

Downey, Douglas B. and James W. Ainsworth-Darnell. 2002. “The Search for Oppositional Culture Among Black Students.” American Sociological Review 67:156-64.

Downey, Douglas B., Paul T. von Hippel, and Beckett Broh. 2004. “Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year.” American Sociological Review 69:613-35.

Farkas, George, Christy Lleras and Steve Maczuga. 2002. “Does Oppositional Culture Exist in Minority and Poverty Peer Groups?” American Sociological Review 67:148-55.

Grant, Linda. 1994. “Helpers, Enforcers, and Go-Betweens.” In Women of Color in U.S. Society, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Hallinan, Maureen T. 2001. “Sociological Perspectives on Black-White Inequalities in American Schooling.” Sociology of Education Extra Issue:50-70.

Jencks, Christopher, et al. 1972. Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America. New York: Basic Books.

Kao, Grace and Jennifer S. Thompson. 2003. “Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Educational Achievement and Attainment.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:417-42.

Katznelson, Ira, et al. 1982. “Public Schooling and Working Class Formation: The Case of the U.S.” American Journal of Education 90:111-43.

Kerckhoff, Alan. 2001. “Education and Social Stratification Processes in Comparative Perspective.” Sociology of Education Extra Issue:3-18.

Lareau, Annette. 2000 [1989]. Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Lucas, Samuel Roundfield. 1999. Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

MacLeod, Jay. 1995. Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Mickelson, Roslyn. 1989. “Why Does Jane Read and Write So Well? The Anomaly of Women’s Achievement.” Sociology of Education 62:47-63.

Mickelson, Roslyn. 1990. “The Attitude-Achievement Paradox among Black Adolescents.” Sociology of Education 63:44-61.

Pallas, Aaron M., Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and M. Francis Stluka. 1994. “Ability-Group Effects: Instructional, Social, or Institutional?” Sociology of Education 67:27-46.

Rivkin, Steven G. 1994. “Residential Segregation and School Integration.” Sociology of Education 67:279-92.

Rothstein, Richard. 2004. Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute.

Saporito, Salvatore and Deenesh Sohoni. 2006. “Coloring Outside the Lines: Racial Segregation in Public Schools and Their Attendance Boundaries.” Sociology of Education 79:81-105.

Steelman, Lala Carr and Brian Powell. 1993. “Doing the Right Thing: Race and Parental Locus of Responsibility for Funding College.” Sociology of Education 66:223-44.

Werum, Regina. 2001. “Warehousing the Unemployed? Federal Job Training Programs in the Depression-Era South.” American Journal of Education 109:228-65.

IV. 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. 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]

Burawoy, Michael. 1979. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Second Edition). New York: Routledge.

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]

 

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.

Keister, Lisa A. and Stephanie Moller. 2000. “Wealth Inequality in the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:63-81.

Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67:747-76.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.