Ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy : comparing the USA and UK /

The causes and consequences of social mobility are a central area of study within social sciences, and the differing levels of economic development between ethnic groups is an issue of concern for policy-makers. This book provides a comparative analysis of these and related issues within the US and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Loury, Glenn C., Modood, Tariq, Teles, Steven Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Social mobility > United States.
Social mobility > Great Britain.
Minorities > United States.
Minorities > Great Britain.
Minorities > Government policy > United States.
Minorities > Government policy > Great Britain.
Mobilité sociale > États-Unis.
Mobilité sociale > Grande-Bretagne.
Minorités > États-Unis.
Minorités > Grande-Bretagne.
Minorités > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Minorités > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne.
Minorities
Minorities > Government policy
Social mobility
Soziale Mobilität
Ethnizität
Minderheden.
Overheidsbeleid.
Sociale mobiliteit.
Vergelijkend onderzoek.
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Ethnicity
Public policy
Ethnicity.
Public policy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime / Mary J. Hickman
  • American diversity and the 2000 census / Nathan Glazer
  • Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas / Orlando Patterson
  • Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations / Min Zhou
  • Intergeneration mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings / Linda Datcher Loury
  • Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain / Ceri Peach
  • Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital / David M. Cutler [and others]
  • Family formation in multicultural Britain: diversity and changes / Richard Berthoud
  • Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s: the interaction of ancestry and class / Michael Hout
  • The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain / Tariq Modood
  • Why America's black-white school achievement gap persists / Ronald F. Ferguson
  • Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections / Roger Waldinger
  • Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain / Suzanne Model
  • Social mobility of ethnic minorities / Anthony Heath, Dorren McMahon
  • Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment, and social mobility in postwar Britain / Vaughan Robinson, Rina Valeny
  • Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain / Tariq Modood
  • Political institutions and minority mobility in the USA / Peter Skerry
  • Race, state, and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the USA and Britain / Robert Lieberman
  • Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy in the USA and Britain / Steven M. Teles, Robert Mickey, Fawzia S. Ahmed
  • Race, inequality and justice in the USA: some social-philosophic reflections / Glenn C. Loury
  • Achieving racial equality / Bhikhu Parekh.

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