Sociology: Social Inequality

Nobel Prize-winning economist Stiglitz's collection of recent essays is a fine, if at times repetitive, look at the steady increase in income inequality throughout the world over the past several years. Stiglitz (The Price of Inequality) contends that a number of U.S. policies created in the last 30 years have contributed both to this phenomenon and to the Great Recession

What's race got to do with it : how current school reform policy maintains racial and economic inequality /

"The bestselling author of Bowling Alone offers [an] ... examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--

In ways not seen since the Gilded age of the late nineteenth century, America is becoming a nation of increasingly sharply divided classes.