Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically
guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and
cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in
terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new
instruments that make inequality research possible; new ways of thinking
and explaining; and empirical findings or important contributions of
rigorous empirical research to our understanding.
The chapters, each written by a distinguished social scientist, are of
interest to both scholars and students. This is the only book to date to
take stock of the state of the art in stratification research, examining
data, methods, theory, and new empirical findings. Analyzing
Inequality offers an unusually and impressively broad coverage of
substantive topics in the field.