Understanding Social Inequality: Modeling Allocation Processes
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Social inequality is a key facet driving sociological study, both from a research and ideological perspective. According to Blalock, however, sociological understanding of the processes leading to inequality are overly simplistic, in their demonstration of the rich and powerful allocating resources to perpetuate their dominance.
In Understanding Social Inequality, the author contends that the processes of allocating resources are far more intricate, involving a process of complex actions, reactions and feedback by all parties in the interaction. Blalock develops a theoretical model of these processes to illustrate how resources are allocated in society and how the accumulation of many individual decisions ultimately
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803943407
ISBN13:9780803943407
Release Date:July 1991
Publisher:Sage Publications, Inc
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
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