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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
      Published 1 September 1999
      ISBN-13 9780520221703
      978-0520221703
      ISBN-10 0520221702
      Also in:
      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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