Full Description
Redistribution of the world's wealth, not only among nation. states but among cultural, class, and sexual groups, has become increasingly a major issue of concern. This book examines existing inequality in both the domestic and international arenas. Its multidisciplinary approach facilitates an understanding of the complex structure of global distr
Contents
Preface -- Major Issues: Inequality and Discrimination -- Issues in the Theory and Assessment of Social Inequality -- Class and Race Stratification in the U.S. -- International Inequality -- Estimating the Marginal Utility of Global Income Transfers -- International Inequality and National Income Distribution -- Cross-national Inequality -- Age and Gender Differentiation and Social Inequality -- A Partial Test of the Ethnic Equalization Hypothesis: A Cross-national Study -- Measuring Cross-national Ethnic and Racial Inequality: Alternative Perspectives -- Spatial Distortion in Education and Income Differentials Among Communal Groups -- Welsh Nationalism and Subregional Inequality -- Strategies for Change -- Strategies for Change: A Classification of Proposals for Ending Inequality
