Durable Inequality
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Durable Inequality

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Durable Inequality

About this book

Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is—as small as a household or as large as a government—the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.

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Of
Essences
and
Bonds
We
could 
reasonably 
call 
James 
Gillray
(1757-1815)
Britain's
first
profes-
sional 
cartoonist 
(George
1967,
57;
Hill 
1976).
He
left
us
unforgettable
images
of
public
and
private
affairs
under 
George 
III.
Very
few
hand-
some 
people
figure
in
Gillray's
caricatures.
In 
the
savage 
portrayals
of
British
life
he
drew,
etched,
and
colored 
toward 
1800,
beefy,
red-faced
aristocrats
commonly 
tower 
over 
other 
people, 
while 
paupers 
almost
invariably
appear
as
small,
gaunt,
and
gnarled.
If
Gillray 
painted
his
compatriots 
with 
malice, 
however,
he
also 
observed 
them 
acutely
Take
the
matter
of
height.
Let 
us
consider 
fourteen-year-old 
entrants
to
the
Royal 
Military 
Academy
at
Sandhurst
to
represent
the
healthier
portion
of 
the
aristocracy
and
gentry,
and
fourteen-year-old 
recruits
for
naval 
service
via
London's
Marine 
Society
to
represent
the
healthier 
por-
tion
of 
the
city's 
jobless 
poor.
At 
the
nineteenth 
century's
start,
poor
boys
of
fourteen 
averaged 
only
4
feet
3
inches 
tall, 
while 
aristocrats
and
gentry
of 
the
same
age
averaged 
about
5
feet
i
inch
(Floud,
Wachter,
and
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Of Essences and Bonds
  5. 2. From Transactions to Structures
  6. 3. How Categories Work
  7. 4. Modes of Exploitation
  8. 5. How to Hoard Opportunities
  9. 6. Emulation, Adaptation, and Inequality
  10. 7. The Politics of Inequality
  11. 8. Future Inequalities
  12. References
  13. Index