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Social Stratification

1. American Society: How It Really Works

   Erik Olin Wright, Joel Rogers

   “The definitive critical introduction to American society, challenging readers to think about the disconnection between how things are supposed to be in theory versus how they really work in practice.” —Jeff Manza, New York UniversityMore

2. More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

   William Julius Wilson

   A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.More

3. Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People

   Jon Jeter

   A powerful, accessible, and eye-opening analysis of the global economy.More

4. Inequality and Society: Social Science Perspectives on Social Stratification

   Jeff Manza, Michael Sauder

   Designed for undergraduate courses on inequality, this reader is the first and only one to incorporate political inequality into the discussion of social stratification.More

5. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

   Michael Lewis

   "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

6. Respect in a World of Inequality

   Richard Sennett

   The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.More

7. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

   Elijah Anderson

   Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)More

8. The Marx-Engels Reader

   Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

   Second Edition

   This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.More