03241nam 2200613 a 450 99624797710331620210624012553.01-283-29171-197866132917140-520-92422-30-585-09318-010.1525/9780520924222(CKB)111004366720658(EBL)224311(OCoLC)42856522(SSID)ssj0000141834(PQKBManifestationID)11136941(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141834(PQKBWorkID)10091419(PQKB)10923129(MiAaPQ)EBC224311(DE-B1597)518862(DE-B1597)9780520924222(Au-PeEL)EBL224311(CaPaEBR)ebr10504620(CaONFJC)MIL329171(EXLCZ)9911100436672065819970902d1998 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrDurable inequality[electronic resource] /Charles TillyBerkeley University of California Pressc19981 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22170-2 0-520-21171-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-290) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Of Essences and Bonds --2. From Transactions to Structures --3. How Categories Work --4. Modes of Exploitation --6. How To Hoard Opportunities --6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality --7. The Politics of Inequality --8. Future Inequalities --References --IndexCharles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is-as small as a household or as large as a government-the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.Income distributionEqualityElectronic books.Income distribution.Equality.339.2Tilly Charles122934MiAaPQBOOK996247977103316Durable inequality2371729UNISA