Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach uses a sociological lens to explore the topics of diversity and social inequality. This sociological perspective demonstrates how social identities--like sex, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, social class, and disability status--are socially constructed. The book also focuses on social inequality, illustrating how individual forces at the micro-level--along with structural factors on the macro-level--often perpetuate inequalities. In so doing, it shows that power and privilege, along with face-to-face meetings and interactions, structure the unequal worlds in which we live. Exploring Inequality explains how identities and inequalities that we take for granted are never static, but always changing-and how everyday examples of activism work to erode these inequalities.

Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach

Politics & Social Sciences

Stuber, Jenny

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Product Description 
The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its overview of education and schooling. 
Education is changing rapidly, just as the social forces outside of schools are, and to present the material in a meaningful way, the authors of this book provide a unifying framework―an open systems approach―to illustrate how the issues and structures we find in education are all interconnected. Separate chapters are devoted to how schools help shape who has access to educational opportunities and who does not; issues of race, class and gender; the organization of schools and the roles that make up educational settings, and more. Throughout the book, readers will have an opportunity to engage with theories and issues that are discussed and to apply their newly obtained understanding in response to emerging and persistent problems in the educational system. 
The new edition continues to be a critical point of reference for students interested in exploring the social context of education and the role education has in shaping our society. It is perfect for sociology of education and social foundations of education courses at the undergraduate or early graduate level. 
 Review 
"Ballantine, Stuber, and Everitt’s Sociology of Education textbook examines education through a systemic description of how structural, cultural, and individual factors intersect to shape educational design for communities and their future as well as individual expectations and learning outcomes. Theoretically progressive, the authors’ go beyond traditional sociological descriptions and innovatively include post-modern, feminists, and critical perspectives that enable bottom-up perspectives and margin-to-center discussions. Over many years of use in both online and traditional courses the book has always provided an innovative ‘out-of-the-box’ teaching―and learning alternative to sociological descriptions of education."\nJesse Garcia, Lamar University 
"I have used this book since its first edition and it remains one of the top comprehensive texts on the market in sociology of education. The 'open system model' provides a clear context for a sociological analysis of schooling that is accessible to students and yet complex enough to lay the ground work for the extensive education policy discussions that fill each chapter. Since my course focuses on inequalities in schooling, this edition is even stronger in that gender and racial disparities are given full treatment in separate chapters and are not collapsed into one as in the past. This is my go-to resource whenever I address educational issues in any sociology course."\nWilliam A. Mirola, Marian University 
 About the Author 
Jeanne Ballantine is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Wright State University. She has taught at several four-year colleges over her career, as well as in international programs in universities abroad. Dr. Ballantine has written several textbooks in addition to this one; her most recent is the new edition of Our Social World: An Introduction to Sociology (SAGE 2019). In her distinguished career, Dr. Ballantine has been awarded by the American Sociological Association and the North Central Sociological Association for her outstanding contributions to teaching and her commitment and impact on the field of sociology. \nJenny Stuber is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida. She is the author of Aspen and the American Dream, forthcoming in 2021 (University of California Press), and Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach (Oxford University Press 2015). With co-author Jeanne Ballantine and Joan Z. Spade, Dr. Stuber is also co-editor of the reader Schools and Society (SAGE 2017). Her research has appeared in Sociological Forum, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, The International Journal o

The Sociology of Education

Business & Money

Ballantine, Jeanne

Everitt, Judson

Economics

Routledge

The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis

Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification

How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the "impossible"&nbsp;math of Aspen, Colorado,&nbsp;Stuber&nbsp;explores how middle-class people have found a way to live in this&nbsp;supergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials,&nbsp;Stuber&nbsp;shows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Colorado--the X-factor&nbsp;that makes middle-class life possible--is the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidies--including an extensive affordable housing program--that redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there. Stuber&nbsp;further examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall,&nbsp;Stuber&nbsp;argues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholders--citizens, government, developers, and vacationers--to preserve the town's unique feel and value, and "keep Aspen, Aspen" in all its complex dynamics.

University of California Press

Product Description 
Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach will help you examine the socially constructed nature of our identities, the processes by which we acquire them, prejudice and privilege, and the unequal outcomes they produce within institutions. By employing both micro-level and macro-level perspectives, as well as integrating intersectional analysis in every chapter, author Jenny M. Stuber provides you with a solid and effective framework for understanding social diversity and inequality.\nThe updated 
Second Edition features a strong introductory chapter reviewing key theories and concepts, real-world examples, social problems and their solutions, and better visuals to help you gain a comprehensive understanding of social inequality.\nAbout the Author 
Jenny Stuber is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida. Her research focuses on social class inequality, especially in terms of how people understand and enact it within institutional settings. Her book Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education (Lexington) explores the reproduction of class inequalities that takes place within higher education’s social and extra-curricular domains. Currently she is working on an ethnographic project in Aspen, Colorado, examining how middle-class residents respond to and resist the growing class inequality within their community. In addition to two textbooks―Exploring Inequality (Oxford University Press) and The Sociology of Education (Routledge), the latter co-authored with Jeanne Ballantine and Floyd Hammock―her research has also appeared in numerous academic journals. A dedicated instructor, her teaching focuses on social inequality, research methods, and annual study abroad trips to Iceland.

Sociology

Sage Publications, Inc.

The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis is a comprehensive and cross-cultural look at the sociology of education. This textbook gives a sociological analysis of education by incorporating a diverse set of theoretical approaches. The authors include practical applications and current educational issues to discuss the structure and processes that make education systems work as well as the role sociologists play in both understanding and bring about change. In addition to up-to-date examples and research, the eighth edition presents three chapters on inequality in educational access and experiences, where class, race and ethnicity, and gender are presented as separate (though intersecting) vectors of educational inequality. Each chapter combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and relevant theory; classics and emerging research; and micro- and macro-level perspectives.

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Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach

The Sociology of Education

The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis

Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification

Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification

Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach

The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis

The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis