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Record Nr.

UNISA996203967703316

Titolo

Social inequalities in comparative perspective [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Devine and Mary C. Waters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-21377-2

9786611213770

0-470-70418-7

0-470-75357-9

1-4051-4312-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DevineFiona

WatersMary C

Disciplina

305

305.5

Soggetti

Equality

Social stratification

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in the United States; 2 The "Language of Race," Identity Options, and "Belonging" in the Quebec Context; 3 Race and Ethnicity in France; 4 Racisms, Ethnicities, and British Nation-Making; 5 Working Poor, Working Hard: Trajectories at the Bottom of the American Labor Market; 6 Class and Social Inequalities in Portugal: From Class Structure to Working-Class Practices on the Shop Floor; 7 Understanding Class Inequality in Australia; 8 Talking about Class in Britain

9 Research on Gender Stratification in the US10 The Japanese Paradox: Women's Voices of Fulfillment in the Face of Inequalities; 11 Catching Up? Changing Inequalities of Gender at Work and in the Family in the UK; 12 Gender and Work-Related Inequalities in Finland; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique collection of original essays brings a comparative



perspective to issues of social inequality. First-rate sociologists from around the world have contributed to this exciting and rigorous volume, drawing upon their own research in the fields of race and ethnicity, class and inequality, and gender and sexuality. Contains original essays by first-rate scholars on issues of social inequalities around the worldFeatures research and examples from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Portugal, Finland, and JapanReviews research on issues of social inequ

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797814603321

Autore

Jespers Eric

Titolo

Group ring groups . Volume 2 Structure theorems of unit groups / / Eric Jespers, Ángel del Río Mateos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-041150-4

3-11-041275-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

Collana

De Gruyter Graduate

Classificazione

SK 260

Disciplina

512.4

Soggetti

Group rings

Rings (Algebra)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 14. Free Groups -- 15. Hyperbolic geometry -- 16. Poincaré's Theorem -- 17. Fundamental polyhedra -- 18. Unit groups of orders in quaternion algebras -- 19. Virtually free-by-free groups -- References -- Index of Notation -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This two-volume graduate textbook gives a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of describing large subgroups of the unit group of the integral group ring of a finite group and, more generally, of the unit group of an order in a finite dimensional semi-simple rational algebra. Since the book is addressed to graduate students as well as young



researchers, all required background on these diverse areas, both old and new, is included. Supporting problems illustrate the results and complete some of the proofs. Volume 1 contains all the details on describing generic constructions of units and the subgroup they generate. Volume 2 mainly is about structure theorems and geometric methods. Without being encyclopedic, all main results and techniques used to achieve these results are included. Basic courses in group theory, ring theory and field theory are assumed as background.