Is America Sick with Inequality?

Mirna Safi (1)

1 OSC - Observatoire sociologique du changement (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Douglas Massey's book, Categorically Unequal, draws up an instructive inventory of inequality in the United States. A classic study of social stratification, it is complemented by a discussion of the production of the categories by means of which individuals and groups are hierarchically organized.

Domaines: Sociologie

Mirna Safi. Is America Sick with Inequality?: Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de Douglas S. Massey: Categorically Unequal. The American Stratification System. La vie des idées, 2009, pp.1-7. ⟨hal-01045096⟩