Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences Plus MySearchLab with eText -- Access Card Package (8th Edition)
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--A user-friendly introduction to social inequality
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This text is a broad introduction to the many types of inequality– economics, status, political power, sex and gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity– in U.S. society and in a global setting.
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The author provides a wide range of explanations for inequality and, using the latest research on the multiple impacts of inequality, surveys in detail the personal and social consequences of social inequality.Â
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Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
- Understand that inequality is multidimensional
- Understand that it is essential to understand the explanations of the various forms of inequality in order to further a resolution to any inequality’s undesirable consequences
- Understand the discussion of inequality in its broader, historical cultural and international context
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