Discrimination in an Unequal World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Centeno, Miguel Angel; Newman, Katherine S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Discrimination in an Unequal World explores the relationship between discrimination and inequality by comparing and examining what effect globalization has had on discrimination. Investigating a broad variety of social relations and practices with an equally broad array of methods, it establishes a base with which to effectively compare the varying forms of discrimination of different societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199742585
• Artikelnr.: 38144655

Autorenporträt

Miguel Centeno is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Katherine Newman is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Part I: Studying Global Discrimination
* 1.: Miguel Angel Centeno, "Discrimination in an Unequal World"
* 2.: Thomas Weisskopf, "Reflections on Globalization, Discrimination,
and Affirmative Action"
* 3.: Devah Pager, "Measuring Discrimination"
* Part II: Case Studies
* 4.: Jeremy Seekings, "Racial and Class Discrimination in Assessments
of Desert in Post-Apartheid Cape Town"
* 5.: Justine Burns, "Race and Trust in a Segmented Society"
* 6.: Michael Cosser, "Race and Opportunity in the Transition from
School to Higher Education in South Africa"
* 7.: Carlos Antonio Costa Ribeiro, "Class, race, and Social Mobility
in Brazil"
* 8.: Kunihiro Kimura, "Trends of Sex Discrimination in Japan,
1965-2000: The Gender Gap in Wage and the 'Marriage Bar'"
* 9.: Koyo Miyoshi, "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Japan."
* 10.: . Katherine Newman and Ashwini Deshpande, "Roadblocks at the
High End: The Role of Caste in Post- University Employment"
* 11.: Katherine S. Newman and Surinder S. Jodhka, "The Language of
Globalization: Meritocracy, Productivity and the Persistence of
Caste-Based Stereotypes among Indian Employers"
* 12.: Paul Attewell, Sukhadeo Thorat "Caste is not Past: The
Persistence of Discrimination in India's Formal Labor Market"
* 13.: Paul Attewell and S. Madheswaran. "The Price of Globalization:
Wage Penalties and Caste Inequality in Liberal India"