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The New Class Society
The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever. The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized throughout, including a new introduction that offers an overview of key themes and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics. New material for the fourth edition includes a discussion of "The Great Recession" and its ongoing impact, the demise of the middle class, rising costs of college and increasing student debt, the role of electronic media in shaping people's perceptions of class, and more.
99 to 1
Thought leader Collins provides revealing and powerful information about inequality in all realms of today's world, including individual wealth and power, and discusses how to reduce inequality to create a world that works for the many and not just the few.
The Case for a Maximum Wage
Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more effectively than conventional approaches? In this engaging book, leading analyst Sam Pizzigati details how egalitarians worldwide are demonstrating that a “maximum wage” could be both economically viable and politically practical. He shows how, building on local initiatives, governments could use their tax systems to enforce fair income ratios across the board. The ultimate goal? That ought to be, Pizzigati argues, a world without a super rich. He explains why we need to create that world — and how we could speed its creation.
The New Class Society
This book explores how class-based resources and interests embedded in large organizations are linked to powerful structures and processes which in turn are rapidly polarizing the U.S. into a highly unequal, 'double diamond' class structure. The authors show how and why American class membership in the 21st century is based on an organizationally-based distribution of critical resources including income, investment capital, credentialed skills verified by elite schools, and social connections to organizational leaders.
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The War of All Against All
After introducing the concepts of class divisions, classlessness and class conflict in the preface, the author presents his theory of "human territorial crowding and its relation to mass society." Fleming develops the idea of a "following" as the basis of social power and describes the process of social control from the viewpoint of injustice. The second half of the book deals with modern society and includes analysis of competitiveness, social mobility, the division of wealth, and media and politics. He criticizes the clichés and dogmas of orthodox social science, claiming that, unlike value-neutral sociology, his theory is not marred by unstated moral assumptions. Fleming also draws on sociological and cultural material including discussions of Bacon, Hume, Rousseau, Mills, Engels, Shaw, Lloyd, and Veblen, among others. This book will be of interest to sociology students and their professors, as well as scholars interested in peace/conflict studies.
