Read The Blackwell Companion to Sociology Online
Authors: Judith R Blau
black±white earnings ratios 186
reception of immigrants 134±7
as cultural capital 121±3
religious pluralization 103±5
economic self-sufficiency 121
rural poverty 196±210
effects of employment on family and marital
transition from school to work 369±71
relationship 119
voting studies 259±60
inequality of working wives 117±18
and Western Europe 39
and pensions in the USA 384
utilitarianism, versus egalitarianism 145±6
in poverty 163, 388
utility
rural in the USA 203
critique of 58±9, 60, 64, 70
unpaid labor by 203
or equality 143±4, 145±6
see also immigrant women
utopianism 238, 441
women of color, poverty 388
women's movement 115
V-chip 24
work
value orientations, of modern ideologies
and retirement 386±8
229±30
transition from school to 368±73
610
Index
work stress 356±7
World Health Organization (WHO) 89,
work team productivity 328
170
workforce, changing composition of the 33
world order, collapse of the 60
working class
world systems theory 227, 318
British 255±6, 264±5
World Wide Web, data resources on the
legitimacy of concept 456
464±523
and marriage 119
worldviews 238
and political sociology 258±61, 266
Western as dominant social paradigm
working class movement 7, 440±1, 443, 445
(DSP) 49±50
world, rationality and intelligibility of the 38,
writing 41
41
World Bank
youth employment, racial gap in 191
poverty measures 167
Yugoslavia, former 87, 445
view of education 63
Table of Contents
Part I Referencing Globalization
Part II Relationships and Meaning
Part III Economic Inequalities
Part V Politics and Political Movements