Sociology 789b: Social Class

For purchase:

Edin, Kathryn and Laura Lein. 1997. Making Ends Meet. New York: Russell Sage.

Milner, Murray. 2004. Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption. New York: Routledge.

Conley, Dalton. 2004. The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why. New York: Random House.

Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Homelessness

Liebow, Elliot. 1993. Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women. New York: Free Press. Read chapter 2.

Jencks, Christopher. 1994. The Homeless. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Read chapters 3,4, and 6.

Rossi, Peter. 1989. Down and out in America: The Origins of Homelessness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Read chapter 7.

Quigley, John M., Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky. 2001. "Homeless in America, Homeless in California." Review of Economics and Statistics 83(February): 37-51.

Tsemberis, Sam, Leyla Gulcur, and Maria Nakae. 2004. "Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals with a Dual Diagnosis." American Journal of Public Health 94: 651-56.

Poverty

Hoynes, Hilary W., Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens. 2006. "Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations" Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(Winter): 47-68.

Chen, Wen-Hao and Miles Corak. 2008. "Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty." Demography 45(August): 537-553.

Bane, Mary Jo and David T. Ellwood. 1986. "Slipping into and out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells." Journal of Human Resources 21(Winter): 1-23.

Clampet-Lundquist, Susan and Douglas S. Massey. 2008. "Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment." American Journal of Sociology 114(July): 107-143.

Ludwig, Jens, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Jeffrey R. Kling, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. 2008. "What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment?" American Journal of Sociology 114(July): 144-188

Welfare

Edin, Kathryn and Laura Lein. 1997. Making Ends Meet. New York: Russell Sage.

Politics

Fording, Richard C. 2001. "The political response to black insurgency: A critical test of competing theories of the state." American Political Science Review 95(March): 115‐130.

Korpi, Walter and Joakim Palme. 2003. "New politics and class politics in the context of austerity and globalization: Welfare state regress in 18 countries, 1975-95." American Political Science Review 97(August): 425-446.

Hout, Michael, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. 1995. "The Democratic Class Struggle in the United States, 1948-1992." American Sociological Review 60(December): 805-828.

Bartels, Larry M. 2006. "What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?" Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

Gelman, Andrew, Boris Shor, Joseph Bafumi, and David Park. 2007. "Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: What’s the Matter with Connecticut?" Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2: 345-67.

Health and Happiness

Easterlin, Richard A. 1995. "Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 27(June): 35-47.

Luttmer, Erzo F. P. 2005. "Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well- Being." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(August): 963-1002.

Deaton, Angus. 2008. "Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(Spring): 53-72.

Kahneman, Daniel and Alan B. Krueger. 2006. "Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being." Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(Winter): 3-24.

Status orders

Milner, Murray. 2004. Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption. New York: Routledge.

Elites and cultural capital

Johnson, Simon, 2009. "The Quiet Coup: How Bankers Took Power, and How They’re Impeding Recovery" Atlantic Magazine May:

Lamont, Michele and Annette Lareau. 1988. "Cultural Capital: Allusion, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments" Sociological Theory 6(Fall): 153-168.

Mobility: the classics

Blau, Peter and Otis Dudley Duncan, 1967. The American Occupational Structure New York: Wiley. Read chapter 5.

Sewell, William H., Archibald O. Haller and Geroge W. Ohlendorf. 1970. "The educational and early occupational status attainment process: Replication and revision." American Sociological Review 35 (December): 1014-1027.

Hauser, Robert M., John N. Koffel, Harry P. Travis, and Peter J. Dickinson. 1975. "Temporal Change in Occupational Mobility: Evidence for Men in the United States." American Sociological Review 40 (June): 279-297

Hout, Michael. 1988. "More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s." American Journal of Sociology 93(May): 1358-1400.

Mobility: Family and class cultures

Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Mobility: family structures

Conley, Dalton. 2004. The Pecking Order. New York, Vintage.

Mobility: school effects

Jencks, Christopher, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert Gintis, Barbara Heyns, and Stephan Michelson. 1972. Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effects of Family and Schooling in America. New York: Basic. Read chapter 2.

Alexander, Karl L., Doris R. Entwisle, and Linda Steffel Olson. 2007. "Lasting consequences of the summer learning gap." American Sociological Review 72(April): 167-180.

Currie, Janet. 2001. "Early Childhood Education Programs." Journal of Economic Perspectives 15(Spring): 213-38.