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Social Differentiation And Social Inequality Essays In Honor Of John Pock

400 Pages

by Routledge

398 Pages

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400 Pages

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The essays included in this volume honor a truly gifted teacher and sociologist, John C. Pock. After a brief stint at the University of Illinois, Pock moved in 1955 to Reed College, a highly regarded but very small liberal arts institution (roughly 1,000 students) located in Portland, Oregon. Pock has spent the rest of his career (to date) there. During his forty-year tenure at Reed College, the... Read more

Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART ONE -- Introduction -- 1 How Pock Shaped Me, Paul M. Siegel -- PART TWO -- The Contours of Social Differentiation -- 2 The Logic of Employment Systems, /Neil Fligstein and Haldor Byrkjeflot -- 3 Income Differences Among 31 Ethnic Groups in Los Angeles, /Donald f. Treiman and Hye-kyung Lee -- 4 The Structure of Career Mobility in Microscopic Perspective, /]esper B. Serensen and David B. Grusky -- PART THREE -- Demographic Aspects of Social Differentiation -- 5 Demography and the Evolution of Educational Inequality, /Robert D. Mare -- 6 The Decline of Infant Mortality in China: Sichuan, 1949-1988, /William M. Mason, William Lavely, Hiromi Ono, and Angelique Chan -- PART FOUR -- Gender and Social Differentiation -- 7 Vive la Difference! Continuity and Change in the Gender Wage Gap, 1967-1987, /Martina Morris -- 8 Gender Inequalities in the Distribution of Responsibility, /Carol A. Heimer -- 9 Currents and Anchors: Structure and Change in Australian Gender Role Attitudes, 1984-1989, /M.D.R. Evans and Karen Oppenheim Mason -- 10 The Social Construction of Modem Intelligence: An Exploration of Gender-Differentiated Boundaries, /William Tudor -- PART FIVE -- Conclusion -- 11 Social Differentiation and Inequality: Some Reflections on the State of the Field, /fames N. Baron, David B. Grusky, and Donald J. Treiman -- PART SIX -- Appendixes -- A Biographical Sketches of Contributors -- B Reed College Students Who Became Professional Sociologists, 1957-1991 -- About the Book and Editors.