Social Stratification

• ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class - The purpose of the Section on Race, Gender,and Class is to support research, teaching and practice that examines theinteractive effects of race, gender, and class phenomena, and a curriculum whichunderscores the centrality of race, gender, and class in society and in sociologic alanalysis.
• Race, Gender, and Class Bibliography - The RGC Bibliography is being "published" electronically to enable timely updates as new materials become available. The Bibliography will be updated regularly by Jean Ait Ambert Belkhir. Please if you know of excellent materials which deal with the intersections of race, gender, and class, please send them to the editor for additions and updates.
• Bibliography on Social Class - maintained by Albert Benschop, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam.
• Economic Security for All: How to End Povery in the United States - online book by Wade Hudson published as a paperback by the Economic Security Project in 1996. Presents current and historical infomation and analysis of economic insecurity and related issues; proposes a 10-point program for establishing economic security in the United States, and; presents a strategy for achieving that goal.
• Income and Poverty - an overview of American income statistics, with interpretations, from the Left Business Observer. This is a revised version of a piece that appeared in LBO #80 (November 1997).
• Boom for whom? - This article appeared in Left Business Observer #93, February 2000. "Boom" is the word typically used to describe the U.S. economy these days. True enough if you own stocks. But, according to the Census Bureau's annual reports on income and poverty published last fall, the median U.S. household - the one in the very middle of the income distribution, with half the households above it, and half below - was only just a hair better off in 1998 than it was in 1989. In fact, most of the boom years have been devoted to recovering the income losses of the early 1990s.
• Inequality.org - Inequality.org is a nonprofit organization. We don't advocate any particular policy or set of policies. Our aim is to circulate information and ideas that are not widely covered in the media. We are a network of journalists, writers and researchers trying to look beyond conventional economics and its notions of prosperity and progress.
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics - The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing since 1968. The data are collected annually, and the data files contain the full span of information collected over the course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families.
• Responsible Wealth - Founded in 1997, Responsible Wealth is affiliated with United for a Fair Economy (UFE), a national non-profit devoted to putting a spotlight on the dangers of excessive inequality of income and wealth in the United States. Our work is focused on four areas: (1) We advocate fair taxes. (2) We support a living wage for all.
  (3) We call for greater corporate accountability. (4) We promote broadened asset ownership for all Americans.
• U.S. Census Bureau: Income Inequality - statistics and analysis from the Census Bureau.
• United for a Fair Economy - United for a Fair Economy is part of a broad social movement of people concerned that the concentration of wealth is hurting our nation. Its goal is to revitalize America through a more fair distribution of wealth. United for a Fair Economy was first formed in 1994 by community organizers from the labor, women's, civil rights, and anti-poverty movements. These organizers came together to reframe their organizing efforts in the context of the dramatic shift in wealth and power that has occurred in the last 15 years.
• 'Refuse of All Classes'? Social Indicators and Social Deprivation - includes an abstract and detailed outline of the article by Geoff Payne, Judy Payne, and Mark Hyde.
• Cal State Fullerton: Soc. 436 - Social Stratification syllabus. Course Objectives:
  · To examine the hierarchical differentiations characterizing human society with a particular focus on the United States.
  · To analyze the ideological and practical justifications offered for the existence of social inequality.
  · To present conceptual and methodological tools for the analysis of the lifestyles and life chances of diverse social
  groupings.
  · To promote an understanding of the various kinds of relationships that occur within structural levels and between
  members of different social strata.
  · To develop skills in working productively with economically disadvantaged people.
• Explorations in Social Inequality - from Trinity University, Michael Kearl's links and bibliographic resources relating to social class, stratification, and inequality.
• Social Stratification - course outline and requirements by Robert E. Wood, Department of Sociology at Rutgers University including syllabus and a virtual tour of social inequality resources on the web.
• Social Stratification Prelimary Summaries 1997-1998 - summaries of scholarly articles from University of Chicago.
• University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) - The University of Texas Inequality Project is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world.
• SocioSite: Social Inequality and Class - annotated list of links to related resources from Albert Benschop, Sociology Department, University of Amsterdam.
• Bay Area Homelessness Project  - BAHP is a regional campus-based consortium of sixteen colleges and universities.
  The mission of BAHP is to carry out the goals of homelessness prevention through student leadership, curriculum, community service learning & popular education, and community partnerships related to public policy, applied research and advocacy.  Currently BAHP is supported by the Department of Health Education at San Francisco State
  University.
• Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program - United Way - The Emergency Food and Shelter Program began in 1983 with a $50 million federal appropriation. The program was created by Congress to help meet the needs of hungry and homeless people throughout the United States and its territories by allocating federal funds for the provision of food and shelter.
• Goodwill Industries International - Goodwill Industries will actively strive to achieve the full participation in society of people with disabilities and other individuals with special needs by expanding their opportunities and occupational capabilities through a network of autonomous, nonprofit, community-based organizations providing services throughout the world in response to local needs.
• The Hunger Project - The most defining characteristic of The Hunger Project is that we are shaped by an unyielding commitment to the end of chronic, persistent hunger. We focus on the human component of ending hunger. We recognize that the persistence of hunger is most fundamentally a human issue, not a technical or financial one.
• Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) - University of Wisconsin - Madison - The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. The Institute was established in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, the organization given responsibility for reducing poverty in America.
• National Coalition for the Homeless - the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. Our Mission is to end homelessness.
• Social Policy Research Centre - University of New South Wales - the Social Welfare Research Centre was established in January 1980 on the basis of a five-year Agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the University of New South Wales. Funding for the Centre is provided under the Agreement by the Commonwealth through the Department of Social Security. The Centre operates as an independent unit of the University and undertakes research into a wide range of social policy issues. The findings of this research are made available to specialist audiences and the general public through publications, seminars and conference presentations.
• World Hunger Year - WHY  - WHY attacks root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative community-based solutions which create self-reliance, economic justice, and food security.
  
  

  

   

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