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A study of social inequality, this text asks how long-lasting inequalities in life chances arise, and how they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons. It highlights the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories.

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"An important approach to social inequality." * CHOICE *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

1. Of Essences and Bonds
2. From Transactions to Structures
3· How Categories Work
4. Modes of Exploitation
5· How to Hoard Opportunities
6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality
7· The Politics of Inequality
8. Future Inequalities

References
Index

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 01/09/1999
    ISBN13: 9780520221703, 978-0520221703
    ISBN10: 0520221702
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    Sociology and anthropology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A study of social inequality, this text asks how long-lasting inequalities in life chances arise, and how they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons. It highlights the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories.

    Trade Review
    "An important approach to social inequality." * CHOICE *

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments

    1. Of Essences and Bonds
    2. From Transactions to Structures
    3· How Categories Work
    4. Modes of Exploitation
    5· How to Hoard Opportunities
    6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality
    7· The Politics of Inequality
    8. Future Inequalities

    References
    Index

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