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"An important approach to social inequality."--M. M. Denny, "Choice
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Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is--as small as a household or as large as a government--the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: 社會學 社會理論 政治學 Tilly Sociology 經濟學 社會運動 政治
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評分失望。對再生産不平等的的行為的分類,是很有啓發性的洞見。但是這整本書在此之外的部分,都是在以本體論上很可疑的方法去延伸這些洞見來闡釋各種例子,令人失望。
評分失望。對再生産不平等的的行為的分類,是很有啓發性的洞見。但是這整本書在此之外的部分,都是在以本體論上很可疑的方法去延伸這些洞見來闡釋各種例子,令人失望。
評分An appealing alternative to explain social inequality based on categorical traits than the distribution of human capital. The problem next is that the mechanism through which those categorical differences are successfully maintained by organizations.
評分本書提齣的是包羅各種不平等現象的一般理論。持續的不平等來自社會組織為解決迫切的組織問題,通過劃定範圍定義類彆(category)壟斷資源而創立的種種社會閉閤、拒斥和控製的係統。Categories運轉起來産生不平等的機製有:精英獲取剩餘價值分配迴報的exploitation, 個體試圖利用網絡獲取進入路徑的opportunities hoarding,類似組織被不斷模仿從而得以擴張的emulation及這一係統不斷在現實中運轉從而被實踐被承認的adaptation。第七章講不平等的政治聯係起瞭作者長久研究社會運動的背景,國傢用類彆來統治,社會運動動員和改變類彆。第四章講西方人如何在南非構建類彆生産不平等來進行剝削有點意思。也可以從這本書裏揣摩怎麼樣從若乾個運動、經驗裏構築起一般的社會理論。
Durable Inequality 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載