Some of you may find this of interest.  It's open for endorsement.  Reposts
welcome.

http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration

Did you read this article on declining prosperity that ran in last week¹s
New York Times?
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-o
f-the-middle-class.html?src=me&ref=general ? I will be teaching Introduction
to Sociology for the first time at Drexel University this autumn. I would
like to integrate a unit on social stratification between the rich (the 400
families who own one HALF of American wealth) and the poor.

I am looking for a recommendation of a reading that is a current but classic
expression of the basic idea of stratification. There is a reading: ³The
Affluent Prosper While Everyone Else Struggles² by Marvin Olsen. However the
paper is now 20 years old and does not address the ever more widening gap
nor the subprime mortgage crisis and its impact.

How to put all this contemporary economic news into sociological context? I
would appreciate your advice.

(I put up an autoreply for a few days to try to reduce my unwanted email.

I certainly DON¹T want to unsubscribe from CITASA. It¹s the most valuable
sociological emailing I receive: plenty of content on technology and
communications and plenty of basic camaraderie among professors and
researchers too.)

Adrienne Redd
Adjunct professor, Culture and Communications, Drexel University
www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=44274262&trk=tab_pro

I would definitely look at the work of Hans Rosling, there are some
fascinating Ted Talks by him out there.

Branko Milanovics has just published a book on the haves and have nots
that has a few nice vignettes about exclusion.

CASE (Center for the analysis of social exclusion) at the LSE:
http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/ also has a number of interesting case
studies.

The same LSE has a policy blog on which various presentations have been
published on social stratification,
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/about/

A bit of self-promotion, I have just published a report and a blog
related to social stratification and digital exclusion at two LSE blogs
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/?s=Helsper and
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2011/07/26/digital-underclass-
emerges-in-the-uk/

If you want more academic references on this contact me personally.

Good luck with your efforts,

Ellen

From: citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org
[mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Ron Anderson
Sent: 10 September 2011 18:40
To: Adrienne Redd; citasa@list.citasa.org
Subject: Re: [CITASA] Seeking a recommendation of a reading on social
stratification

I try to follow the academic and popular articles and books on
inequality as it is a major emphasis of my website
http://www.CompassionateSocieties.org
http://www.compassionatesocieties.org/

1. My recommendation would be to look primarily at Pathways Magazine:
   http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/media_magazines.html
   (from Stanford Center on Poverty, Inequality and social policy, directed
   by sociologist David Grusky)

2. and secondly at the ASA's Contexts magazine. Here is a link to an
   interesting article in their Spring issue:
   http://contexts.org/articles/spring-2011/rethinking-american-poverty/
   A problem with Contexts is that it is not free but Pathways can be
   freely downloaded and/or subscribed to.

3. If you are not aware of it, you should be using the Sociological
   Images blog
   http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
   It is the most widely read blog in sociology and has quite a bit on
   inequalty. Go there and search for inequality and other topics of
   interest. You will find a lot of images and articles that you can use
   for class discussions.

4. If you are interested in inequality outside the US, check out the
   Equality Trust in England.
   http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/
   The website and their book, Spirit Level, argue that inequality is a
   cause of most social problems.

Ron

At 10:41 AM 9/10/2011, Adrienne Redd wrote:

Did you read this article on declining prosperity that ran in last
week's New York Times?
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengtheni
ng-of-the-middle-class.html?src=me&ref=general ? I will be teaching
Introduction to Sociology for the first time at Drexel University this
autumn. I would like to integrate a unit on social stratification
between the rich (the 400 families who own one HALF of American wealth)
and the poor.

I am looking for a recommendation of a reading that is a current but
classic expression of the basic idea of stratification. There is a
reading: "The Affluent Prosper While Everyone Else Struggles" by Marvin
Olsen. However the paper is now 20 years old and does not address the
ever more widening gap nor the subprime mortgage crisis and its impact.

How to put all this contemporary economic news into sociological
context? I would appreciate your advice.

(I put up an autoreply for a few days to try to reduce my unwanted
email.

I certainly DON'T want to unsubscribe from CITASA. It's the most
valuable sociological emailing I receive: plenty of content on
technology and communications and plenty of basic camaraderie among
professors and researchers too.)

Adrienne Redd
Adjunct professor, Culture and Communications, Drexel University
www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=44274262&trk=tab_pro

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