CUNY Academic Commons

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo. 2012. “Chapter 4 – Top of the Class” In: Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Po […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Gerber, Theodore, and Sin Yi Cheung. 2008. “Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Forms, Explanations, and Implications.” Annual Revie […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Raftery, Adrian E., and Michael Hout. 1993. “Maximally Maintained Inequality: Educational Stratification in Ireland.” Sociology of Education, 66, 1: 4 […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Annette Lareau.. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families.” American Sociological Review […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Heckman, James J. 2008. “Schools, Skills, and Synapses.” Economic Inquiry. 46 (3): 289–324.Marteleto, Leticia.J. & Dondero, Molly. 2016. “Racial […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Downey, Douglas B. and Dennis J. Condron. 2016. “Fifty Years since the Coleman Report: Rethinking the Relationship between Schools and Ine […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. “The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.) Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education.” (New York, […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following reading:

Narayan, Ambar, Roy Van der Weide, et al. 2018. “Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World.” Washington, DC: World Bank […]

Hi all! This week we’re discussing the following readings:

Chabbott, Colette. Ramirez, Francisco O. 2006. “Chapter 7 – Development and Education.” In:  Sociology of Education at the Threshold of the Twenty […]

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This week we’re discussing these two readings:

Sen, Amartya. 1999. “Development as Freedom.” Oxford University Press: New York (Introduction and Chapter 1)Aber, J. Lawrence, Bennett, Neil G. Conl […]

For the last week of class we will be going over main concepts and data trends covered throughout the semester. The readings for this week are:

Neckerman, Kathryn M., and Florencia Torche. 2007. […]

Our discussion this week is based on the Introduction of Ellis Monk’s PhD dissertation:

Monk, Ellis P. 2013. “Color, Bodily Capital, and Ethnoracial Division in the U.S. and Brazil.” [Introduction pp.1 […]

Our discussion is based on this week’s readings:

Hoffman, Kelly, and Miguel Angel Centeno. 2003. “The Lopsided Continent: Inequality in Latin America.” Annual Review of Sociology 29(1):363–90.
Parr […]

Our discussion is based on this week’s readings:

Hillmann, Henning. 2013. “Economic Institutions and the State: Insights from Economic History.” Annual Review of Sociology 39(1):251–73.
Acemoglu, Johnson […]

This week we are discussing trends in top incomes shares and what makes the rich rich.

Our discussion is based on this week’s readings:

Medeiros, Marcelo., & de Souza, Pedro. H. F. 2015. The rich, the […]

This week we are discussing historical trends in within country income inequality.

Our discussion is based on this week’s reading: Milanovic, Branko. 2016. Global Inequality – A New Approach for the Age of G […]

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This week we are discussing income inequality among citizens in the world. We are reading: Milanovic, Branko. 2010. The Haves and the Have-Nots: A brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality […]

Lecture Post Week 5 – Income Inequality Between Countries

This week we are discussing Income Inequality Within a Country. The reading for the week is:

Milanovic, Branko. 2010. The Haves and the Have-Nots: A […]