The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality by Dennis L. Gilbert

Author:Dennis L. Gilbert [Gilbert, Dennis L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-03-23T19:28:00+00:00

Key Terms Defined in the Glossary

chain of causation

correlation, simple

multiple causal pathways

path analysis

social mobility

social succession

socioeconomic status (SES)

variance explained

Suggested Readings

Bowles, Samuel, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves, eds. 2005. Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Important collection of research papers on the influence of family background on earnings and income.

Golden, Daniel. 2007. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. New York: Three Rivers Press.

A Wall Street Journal reporter explores what happens when meritocracy meets money.

Karabel, Jerome. 2005. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

The history of class, ethnicity and the changing meaning of merit at three elite institutions.

Lemann, Nicholas. 2000. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

The history of the SAT. Created to break the grip of a social elite on the Ivies, the test provided the basis for a new elite, as privileged and exclusive as the old.

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

Formal tracking based on discrete ability groups is a thing of the past. But informal tracking persists, to the disadvantage of lower-class children.

McLeod, Jay. 2004. Ain't No Makin' It. Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Revised ed. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Engaging portrait of black and white teens in a public housing project. Shows how their occupational aspirations are shaped by peer group, family, and school.

Stevens, Mitchell. 2007. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

How selective institutions reproduce class privilege: First hand study of the admissions process at a liberal arts college.

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