Inequality in income, earnings, and wealth has risen dramatically in the United States over the past three decades. In "Social Inequality, a group of the nations leading social scientists assess whether the recent tun-up in economic inequality has been accompanied by rising inequality in social domains such as the quality of family and neighborhood life, equal access to education and health care, job satisfaction, and political participation. While today's widening inequality may be a temporary episode that will resolve itself as the country adapts to the recent shocks of globalization and compurerization, the danger is that the current economic divisions may harden into permanent social divisions, setting in mortion a self-perpemating cycle of social disadvantages. The most comprehensive review of this quandary to date. "Social Inequality maps out a new agenda for research on inequality in America with important for public policy.