The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

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social stratification theory

  • Charles Booth
    In sociology: Social stratification

    …by William Julius Wilson in The Truly Disadvantaged (1987). His book uncovered mechanisms that maintained segregation and disorganization in African American communities. Disciplinary specialization, especially in the areas of gender, race, and Marxism, came to dominate sociological inquiry.

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