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This book offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college.

This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries-Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is similar or different about women's economic participation in this region of the world compared to Western societies, the book also asks how women's work patterns vary across the three countries.

An assessment of the relative importance of previous school performance and choice in creating social background inequalities in educational attainment.

This volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.

This book provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates.

Provides the first large-scale analysis of the impact social transformation has had on young people in their transition from school to work in Central and Eastern European countries.

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality.

This book asks leading scholars to debate the causes of inequality, whether we have an obligation to help the poor, and the types of reforms that are most likely to eliminate or reduce inequality.

Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.

This cross-national comparative study analyzes the relationship between social inequality and the attainment of home ownership over the life course in 12 countries.

This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.

Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America.

A systematic and in-depth analysis and explanation of China's rapid increase in inequality in the last two decades.

A comparative analysis of the political attitudes, values, and aspirations of citizens in European and North American societies.

This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.