On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States

On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States

The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamental question: Who goes to college and why? In […]


Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms, Volume 21: Essays in Honor of Aage B. Sorensen (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility)

Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms, Volume 21: Essays in Honor of Aage B. Sorensen (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility)

Aage Sorensen was an influential intellectual presence who was one of the world’s leading authorities on social stratification and the sociology of education. His research sought to understand the structures, […]


Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870

Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related […]


Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System

Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System

Examines what historic transformations in power relationships can teach us about our own time–and about what lies ahead. In a period of dramatic political transformation and upheaval, as we wonder […]


Kin Support, Welfare, and Out-of-Wedlock Mothers

Kin Support, Welfare, and Out-of-Wedlock Mothers