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Century of Difference : How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Claude S., 1948-
Otros Autores: Hout, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The American variations, 1900 to 2000
  • How America expanded education and why it mattered
  • Where Americans came from : race, immigration, and ancestry / with Aliya Saperstein
  • How Americans lived : families and life courses in flux / with Jon Stiles
  • How Americans worked : new workers, new jobs, and new differences
  • What Americans had : differences in living standards / with Jon Stiles
  • Where Americans lived : the redrawing of America's social geography / with Jon Stiles
  • How Americans prayed : religious diversity and change
  • When Americans disagreed : cultural fragmentation and conflict
  • Conclusion: the direction of Americans' differences
  • Appendix A: Combining parametric and nonparametric regressions to study how trends differ among subpopulations
  • Appendix B: Income differences or income ratios?
  • Appendix C: Procedures and data for the fragmentation analysis in chapter 9 / by Jane Zavisca.