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- catalog abstract ""Focusing on the work legacy of William Julius Wilson and the arguments of his longstanding critics, Niemonen deftly illustrates the strengths, weakness, and influence of Wilson's work. His analysis calls for a major shift in how sociology conceptualizes race relations - a shift that challenges popular assumptions and contemporary vocabularies and brings to the forefront the role of the state."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12445417.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations Political aspects.".
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Focusing on the work legacy of William Julius Wilson and the arguments of his longstanding critics, Niemonen deftly illustrates the strengths, weakness, and influence of Wilson's work. His analysis calls for a major shift in how sociology conceptualizes race relations - a shift that challenges popular assumptions and contemporary vocabularies and brings to the forefront the role of the state."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-298) and index.".
- catalog description "The race relations problematic in sociology. Situating Wilson's work -- Wilson and the race-class debate today -- Wilson and the state -- Studying race and class : problems in assessing logical and empirical adequacy. The Reification of race -- What is racism? -- Confusion compounded : the multicultural movement -- Race, class, and the problem of epistemological incoherence -- Empirically validating the thesis of the declining significance of race -- Inferring causality -- Debates surrounding The declining significance of race. Some observations on racial formations -- Racial inequality in the aggregate : trends over time -- School practices and educational attainment -- Earnings attainment -- Occupational attainment -- Authority attainment -- Unions and the Black working class -- Black life-chances in the state sector -- Race and social-psychological distress -- The Truly disadvantaged and when work disappears: critiques. Wilson on the Black underclass -- Concentrated poverty -- The Spatial mismatch hypothesis and urban labor markets -- Disarticulation as a contributing factor to employment hardship -- Marital disintegration -- A Tangle of pathology? -- Violence, delinquency, and crime -- Wilson's Achilles' heel : the continuing significance of racially based segregation. Race and place -- The Separation of the economic sector from the Sociopolitical Order Revisited -- The Complex Motivations underlying the racial structuring of housing markets -- Conclusion: A Bridge over the theoretical divide. The Theoretical divide -- Bringing back the state -- "The State" defined -- Bridging the theoretical divide : twelve propositions -- Theory and practice : Wilson on affirmative action.".
- catalog extent "x, 309 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1588260100 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations Political aspects.".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.8/00973 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Social conditions 1975-".
- catalog subject "E185.615 .N5 2002".
- catalog subject "Social classes United States.".
- catalog subject "Sociology United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Wilson, William J., 1935- Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Wilson, William J., 1935- Declining significance of race.".
- catalog subject "Wilson, William J., 1935- Truly disadvantaged.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The race relations problematic in sociology. Situating Wilson's work -- Wilson and the race-class debate today -- Wilson and the state -- Studying race and class : problems in assessing logical and empirical adequacy. The Reification of race -- What is racism? -- Confusion compounded : the multicultural movement -- Race, class, and the problem of epistemological incoherence -- Empirically validating the thesis of the declining significance of race -- Inferring causality -- Debates surrounding The declining significance of race. Some observations on racial formations -- Racial inequality in the aggregate : trends over time -- School practices and educational attainment -- Earnings attainment -- Occupational attainment -- Authority attainment -- Unions and the Black working class -- Black life-chances in the state sector -- Race and social-psychological distress -- The Truly disadvantaged and when work disappears: critiques. Wilson on the Black underclass -- Concentrated poverty -- The Spatial mismatch hypothesis and urban labor markets -- Disarticulation as a contributing factor to employment hardship -- Marital disintegration -- A Tangle of pathology? -- Violence, delinquency, and crime -- Wilson's Achilles' heel : the continuing significance of racially based segregation. Race and place -- The Separation of the economic sector from the Sociopolitical Order Revisited -- The Complex Motivations underlying the racial structuring of housing markets -- Conclusion: A Bridge over the theoretical divide. The Theoretical divide -- Bringing back the state -- "The State" defined -- Bridging the theoretical divide : twelve propositions -- Theory and practice : Wilson on affirmative action.".
- catalog title "Race, class, and the state in contemporary sociology : the William Julius Wilson debates / Jack Niemonen.".
- catalog type "text".