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Culture and Inequality: Identity, Ideology, and Difference in "Postascriptive Society"

University of California, Santa Barbara

How have conceptualizations of "culture" been incorporated into sociological studies of class, racial/ethnic, and gender inequality? This article first reviews the development of American scholarship on social inequalities during the past half century and the role of cultural analysis in this development. It goes on to consider culture-related responses to three central questions in the subdiscipline and closes with an examination of currently contentious issues. Likely future developments include movement toward more fluid, contextually contingent conceptualizations of class, race, and gender and an increasing prominence of analyses that explore the dynamic interplay between individual, interactional, and institutional processes of inequality.

Key Words: culture • race • ethnicity • class • gender • inequality

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 619, No. 1, 41-58 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716208319824


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