From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Valdis Krebs Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:13 AM To: Adrienne Redd Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CITASA] Seeking a recommendation of a reading on socialstratification Adrienne, This may be one of the roots causes... http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html?re f=sunday Valdis Krebs http://orgnet.com On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Adrienne Redd wrote: Did you read this article on declining prosperity that ran in last week's New York Times? www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-o f-the-middle-class.html?src=me <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengt hening-of-the-middle-class.html?src=me&ref=general> &ref=general ? I will be teaching Introduction to Sociology for the first time at Drexel University this autumn. I would like to integrate a unit on social stratification between the rich (the 400 families who own one HALF of American wealth) and the poor. I am looking for a recommendation of a reading that is a current but classic expression of the basic idea of stratification. There is a reading: "The Affluent Prosper While Everyone Else Struggles" by Marvin Olsen. However the paper is now 20 years old and does not address the ever more widening gap nor the subprime mortgage crisis and its impact. How to put all this contemporary economic news into sociological context? I would appreciate your advice. (I put up an autoreply for a few days to try to reduce my unwanted email. I certainly DON'T want to unsubscribe from CITASA. It's the most valuable sociological emailing I receive: plenty of content on technology and communications and plenty of basic camaraderie among professors and researchers too.) Adrienne Redd Adjunct professor, Culture and Communications, Drexel University www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=44274262 <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=44274262&trk=tab_pro> &trk=tab_pro _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list [email protected] http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org
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