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Format:
Paperback
352 pp.
140 mm x 208 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190216405

Copyright Year:
2015

Imprint: OUP US


Rigging the Game

How Inequality is Reproduced in Everyday Life, Second Edition

Michael Schwalbe

In Rigging the Game Michael Schwalbe offers a clear and compelling introduction to how the rules that shape economic life and everyday interaction generate and perpetuate inequality in American society. Guided by the questions How did the situation get this way? and How does it stay this way?, Schwalbe tracks inequality from its roots to its regulation. With its lively combination of analysis and stories, Rigging the Game is an innovative tool for teaching about the inequalities of race, class, and gender. In the final chapter, "Escaping the Inequality Trap," Schwalbe helps students understand how inequality can be challenged and overcome.

Readership : Suitable for undergraduate students in social inequality, stratification, and race/class/gender courses.

Reviews

  • "I really like this book and I bet that students will love it. It's not overly theoretical, and it relies on real-world examples. That's a unique and desirable combination of features."

    --Matt Huffman, University of California, Irvine

  • "The use of stories is effective in illustrating the ideas of the book; stories draw students in and generate lively discussions in class. The discussion questions at the end of each story are spot on."

    --Deborah Safron, Michigan State University

  • "I like Schwalbe's inclusion of steps to action and positive social change. This will be good for students who might otherwise feel hopeless after realizing how entrenched and pervasive inequality is in our world."

    --Tennille Allen, Lewis University

Preface to Rigging the Game Second Edition: Welcome to the Conversation
Introduction: Thinking Sociologically About Inequality
1. The Roots of Inequality
2. Rigging the Game
3. The Valley of the Nine Families (a story)
4. Arresting the Imagination
5. Smoke Screen (a story)
6. Regulating the Action
7. Interview with Rania O (an account)
8. Escaping the Inequality Trap
Acknowledgments
Index

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Michael Schwalbe is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture (1996), The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation (2007), Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination (2014), and other books.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Race and Racisms - Tanya Golash-Boza
America Transformed - Gary Hytrek and Kristine Zentgraf
The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills
Afterword by Alan Wolfe

Special Features

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New to this Edition
  • Updated facts and figures.
  • New discussion of privacy and the surveillance state.
  • New discussion of tax breaks and loopholes for the rich.
  • New discussion of new voter suppression and campaign finance laws.
  • New discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
  • New postscript to the fictional "Interview with Rania".