Durable Inequality Tilly Charles
Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these… Celý popis ↓
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Durable Inequality Tilly Charles
Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. 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. 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?
Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. 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