Full Description
The essays included in this volume honor a truly gifted teacher and sociologist, John C. Pock. After a brief stint at the University of Illinois, Pock moved in 1955 to Reed College, a highly regarded but very small liberal arts institution (roughly 1,000 students) located in Portland, Oregon. Pock has spent the rest of his career (to date) there. During his forty-year tenure at Reed College, the sociology department usually had only two faculty members. Even so, during this period as many as 104 students graduated with majors in sociology and 69 established professional careers as sociologists. (A listing, which is assuredly incomplete, of Reed students during Pock's tenure who went on to professional careers in sociology is presented in an appendix to this volume.) Many of these sociologists have been extremely successful and influential within the discipline. Reed sociologists have taught or are teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, Stanford, UCLA, Wisconsin, and other leading U.S. academic departments. Others have been employed as researchers in such prominent institutions within and outside the United States as RAND, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Opinion Research Center, the East-West Center, the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Sloan Foundation, and the Australian National University.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART ONE -- Introduction -- 1 How Pock Shaped Me, Paul M. Siegel -- PART TWO -- The Contours of Social Differentiation -- 2 The Logic of Employment Systems, /Neil Fligstein and Haldor Byrkjeflot -- 3 Income Differences Among 31 Ethnic Groups in Los Angeles, /Donald f. Treiman and Hye-kyung Lee -- 4 The Structure of Career Mobility in Microscopic Perspective, /]esper B. Serensen and David B. Grusky -- PART THREE -- Demographic Aspects of Social Differentiation -- 5 Demography and the Evolution of Educational Inequality, /Robert D. Mare -- 6 The Decline of Infant Mortality in China: Sichuan, 1949-1988, /William M. Mason, William Lavely, Hiromi Ono, and Angelique Chan -- PART FOUR -- Gender and Social Differentiation -- 7 Vive la Difference! Continuity and Change in the Gender Wage Gap, 1967-1987, /Martina Morris -- 8 Gender Inequalities in the Distribution of Responsibility, /Carol A. Heimer -- 9 Currents and Anchors: Structure and Change in Australian Gender Role Attitudes, 1984-1989, /M.D.R. Evans and Karen Oppenheim Mason -- 10 The Social Construction of Modem Intelligence: An Exploration of Gender-Differentiated Boundaries, /William Tudor -- PART FIVE -- Conclusion -- 11 Social Differentiation and Inequality: Some Reflections on the State of the Field, /fames N. Baron, David B. Grusky, and Donald J. Treiman -- PART SIX -- Appendixes -- A Biographical Sketches of Contributors -- B Reed College Students Who Became Professional Sociologists, 1957-1991 -- About the Book and Editors.
