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Emory Sociology

Health & Inequality Concentration

Reading List for Prelim Exams

Revised March 2017

HEALTH

Theory and Paradigms in Medical Sociology

Black, Douglas, Jerry Morris, C. Smith, Peter Townsend and Margaret Whitehead. 1992.

Inequalities in Health: The Black Report/The Health Divide. London: Penguin UK.

“Introduction to Inequalities in Health, 1992 Edition” pp.1-28.

Bloom, Samuel. 2002. The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology. New York: Oxford

University Press. Chapter 11 “An Era of Change, 1980-2000” pp.247-283, 325-333.

Cockerham, William C. and Graham Scambler. 2010. “Medical sociology and sociological

theory.” Pp. 3-26 in The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology edited by William C.

Cockerham. West Sussex, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Durkheim, Emile. 2007 (1897). Suicide. Ed. Alexander Riley. Tr. Robin Buss. London: Penguin

Books.

Hankin, Janet R. and Eric R. Wright. 2010. “Reflections on fifty years of medical sociology.”

Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(Supplement): S10-S14

The Demographic Transition, Population Health, and Societal Aging

Caldwell, J. C. 1986. “Routes to low mortality in poor countries”. Population and Development

Review, 12(2): 171-220.

Case, Anne and Angus Deaton. 2015. "Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among non-

Hispanic white Americans in the 21st century." Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences 112(49): doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518393112

Christensen, Kaare, G. Doblhammer, R. Rau and James Vaupel. 2009. “Ageing populations: the

challenges ahead”. Lancet 374: 1196-208.

Ghuman, SJ. 2003. “Women's autonomy and child survival: A comparison of Muslims and non-

Muslims in four Asian countries. Demography 40(3): 419-436

Kuhn, Randall. 2010. Routes to low mortality in poor countries revisited. Population and

Development Review, 36(4): 655 – 692.

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McKinlay, John, and Sonja McKinlay. 1977. “The questionable contribution of medical

measures to the decline of mortality in the United States in the twentieth century.” Milbank

Memorial Fund Quarterly 55:405-428.

Meslé, France, and Jacques Vallin. 2011. “Historical trends in mortality.” In Richard G. Rogers

and Eileen Crimmins, Editors, International Handbook of Adult Mortality, pp.9-47. New York:

Springer.

National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2013. U. S. Health in International

Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Chapter 6, “Social factors”, pp. 161-191.

Omran, Abdel R. 1971. "The epidemiological transition: A theory of the epidemiology of

population change", Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 49(4): 509–538

Yount, K. M., A. Crandall, T. Osypuk, R.T. Naved, Y. F. Cheong, L. Bates, S. R. Schuler. 2016.

Child Marriage and Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis.

Demography 53:1821–1852

Social Determinants of Health and Mortality

Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Age

Bird, Chloe E. and Patricia P. Rieker. 2008. Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained

Choices and Social Policies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1 “Gender

differences in health: are they biological, social, or both?” pp. 16-53.

Braveman, Paula. 2006. "Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement."

Annual Review of Public Health 27: 167-194.

Connell, Raewyn. 2012. Gender, health and theory: Conceptualizing the issue, in local and world

perspective”. Social Science & Medicine, 74(11), 1675-1683

Courtenay, Will H. 2000. Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being:

A theory of gender and health. Social Science and Medicine, 50(10): 1385-1401.

Crimmins, Eileen, Jung Ki Kim, and Aida Sole-Auro. 2011. “Gender differences in health:

Results from SHARE, ELSA, and HRS.” European Journal of Public Health 21(1):81-91.

Geronimus, Arline, Margaret Hicken, Danya Keene and John Bound. 2006. “’Weathering’ and

age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States.” American

Journal of Public Health 96(5):826-33.

Hill, T. D., & Needham, B. L. 2013. Rethinking gender and mental health: A critical analysis of

three propositions. Social Science & Medicine, 92, 83-91.

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Jackson, James S., Katherine M. Knight, and Jane A. Rafferty. 2010. “Race and unhealthy

behaviors: chronic stress, the HPA axis, and physical and mental health disparities over the life

course. American Journal of Public Health 100:933-939.

James, Sherman A., Keenan, N. L., Strogatz, D. S., Browning, S. R., & Garret, J. M. 1992.

"Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and blood pressure in black adults: The Pitt County

Study" American Journal of Epidemiology 135 (1): 59-67.

Keyes, Corey L. M. 2009. “The black-white paradox in health: flourishing in the face of

inequality”. Journal of Personality 77:1677-1706.

Krieger, Nancy. 2012. "Methods for the scientific study of discrimination and health: an

ecosocial approach. American Journal of Public Health 102: 936-945.

Markides, Kyriakos S. and Karl Eschbach. 2011. “Hispanic paradox in adult mortality in the

United States.” In Richard G. Rogers and Eileen Crimmins, Editors, International Handbook of

Adult Mortality, pp.227-240. New York: Springer.

Read, Jen'nan Ghazal; Gorman, Bridget K. 2010. “Gender and health inequality.” Annual Review

of Sociology, 36: 371-386.

Smedley, Brian, Adrienne Stith and Alan Nelson, Eds. 2002. Unequal Treatment: Confronting

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Contributed paper by Jack Geiger, “Racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment: A

review of the evidence and a consideration of causes”.

Springer, Kristen W. 2010. “Economic dependence in marriage and husbands’ health: testing

three possible mechanisms.” Gender & Society. 24(3). 378-401.

Williams, David R., and Michelle Sternthal. 2010. “Understanding racial-ethnic disparities in

health: Sociological contributions.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(Supplement):

S15-S27.

Yount, Kathryn M., Agree, Emily M. 2005. “Differences in disability among older women and

men in Egypt and Tunisia”. Demography, 42(1): 169-187.

Education and Socioeconomic Status

Banks, J., Marmot, M., Oldfield, Z. and Smith, J. P. 2006. “Disease and disadvantage in the

United States and in England”. JAMA 295: 2037-2045.

Hummer, Robert A. and Joseph T. Lariscy. 2011. “Educational attainment and adult mortality.”

In R. G. Rogers and E. M. Crimmins, Eds., International Handbook of Adult Mortality. Pp. 241-

261. New York: Springer.

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Kawachi I, Kennedy BP, Lochner K, Prothrow-Stith D. 1997. “Social capital, income inequality

and mortality”. American Journal of Public Health 87(9): 1491-1498.

Krieger, Nancy, David Williams, N. Moss. 1997. “Measuring social class in US public health

research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelines.” Annual Review of Public Health 18:341-78.

Marmot, Michael 2004. The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and

Longevity. Times Books. Introduction and Chapter 1, "Some are more equal than others", pp. 1-

36.

Marmot, Michael, and Richard G. Wilkinson, Editors. 2006. Social Determinants of Health, 2nd

Edition. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 4 by David Blane, "The life course, the

social gradient, and health", pp. 54-77.

Mirowsky, John, and Catherine Ross. 2015. “Education, health, and the default American

lifestyle." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 56(3): 297-306.

Phelan, Jo C., Bruce G. Link, Ana Diez-Roux, Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce Levin. 2004.

“’Fundamental causes’ of social inequalities in mortality: a test of the theory.” Journal of

Health and Social Behavior 45: 265–285.

Seeman, Teresa; Epel, Elissa; Gruenewald, Tara; et al. 2010. “Socio-economic differentials in

peripheral biology: Cumulative allostatic load”. Pp. 223 – 239 in Adler, NE; Stewart, J (eds.)

Biology of Disadvantage: Socioeconomic Status and Health. Book Series: Annals of the New

York Academy of Sciences.

Social Network Ties and Social Support

Berkman, Lisa F. and L. Leonard Syme. 1979. “Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a

nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents”. American Journal of Epidemiology

109(2):186-204.

Berkman, Lisa and Thomas Glass. 2000. “Social integration, social networks, social support, and

health.” Pp. 137-73 in Social Epidemiology, Lisa Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi, Eds. New York:

Oxford University Press.

Christakis, Nicholas and James A. Fowler. 2009. Connected: How your Friends’ Friends’

Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Chapter 3, "Love the one you're with", pp. 61-94.

Cornwell, Erin York, and Linda J. Waite. 2009. “Social disconnectedness, perceived isolation,

and health among older adults.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 50: 31-48.

House, James, K. Landis, and Debra Umberson. 1988. “Social relationships and health”. Science

241:540-545.

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Idler, Ellen. 2011. “Religion and adult mortality.” In International Handbook of Adult Mortality,

Richard Rogers and Eileen Crimmins, Editors. Dordrecht: Springer. Pp. 345-377.

Kawachi, Ichiro, S. V. Subramanian, Daniel Kim. 2008. Social Capital and Health. New York:

Springer. Chapter 1, “Social capital and health: A decade of progress and beyond”, pp.1-28

Place Characteristics and Social Contexts

Diez-Roux, Ana V. 2010. “Neighborhoods and health.” Annals of the New York Academy of

Sciences 1186: 125-145.

Gilbert C. Gee. 2002. "A multilevel analysis of the relationship between institutional and

individual racial discrimination and health status. American Journal of Public Health 92(4): 615-

623.

Kawachi, Ichiro and Lisa Berkman, Eds. 2003. Neighborhoods and Health. New York: Oxford

University Press. Introduction, pp. 1-19.

Klinenberg, Eric. 2002. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press. Chapter 2, "Race, place, and vulnerability: urban neighborhoods

and the ecology of support", pp. 79-128.

VanderEnde, K. E., K. M. Yount, M. Dynes, & L. Sibley. 2012. Community Level Correlates of

Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Systematic Review. Social Science & Medicine.

75(7): 1143-1155.

Williams, David R., and Chiquita Collins. 2001. "Racial residential segregation: a fundamental

cause of racial disparities in health." Public Health Reports 116(5): 404-416.

Culture and the Subjective Experience of Health and Illness

Angel, Ronald and Peggy Thoits. 1987. “The impact of culture on the cognitive structure of

illness.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 11: 465-494.

Charmaz, Kathy. 1991. Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time. New

Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Chapters 1-2, "Chronic illness as interruption", pp. 1-

40.

Foucault, Michel. 1973. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception. Trans. by

A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Vintage Books. Chapter 1, "Spaces and classes", pp. 1-23.

Idler, Ellen L. and Yael Benyamini. 1997. “Self-rated health and mortality: a review of twenty-

seven community studies.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38:21-37.

Kellehear, Allan. 2007. A Social History of Dying. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 12 and Conclusion, "The final challenge: timing death", pp. 234-256.

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Kleinman, Arthur and Don Seeman. 2000. “Personal experience of illness.” Pp. 230-242 in The

Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan

Scrimshaw (eds.). London: Sage.

Quah, Stella. 2010. “Health and culture.” Pp. 27-46 in The New Blackwell Companion to

Medical Sociology edited by William C. Cockerham. West Sussex, UK: Blackwell Publishing

Ltd.

Sudnow, David. 1967. Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:

Prentice-Hall. Chapter 4, “Death and dying as social states of affairs”, pp. 61-116

Mental Health and Illness

Major Epidemiological Studies

Faris, Robert E. Lee, and Henry Warren Dunham. 1939. Mental Disorders in Urban Areas: An

Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Introduction and Chapter XI “Hypotheses and interpretations of distributions”, pp. ix-xx, 160-

177.

Kessler, Ronald C., Katherine A. McGonagle, Shanyang Zhao, Christopher B. Nelson, Michael

Hughes, Suzann Eshleman, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, and Kenneth S. Kendler. 1994. “Lifetime and

12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States: results from the

National Comorbidity Survey”. Archives of General Psychiatry. 51(1): 8-9.

Leighton, Dorothea C., John S. Harding, David B. Macklin, Allister M. Macmillan, and

Alexander H. Leighton. 1963. The Stirling County Study of Psychiatric Disorder & Sociocultural

Environment, Vol. III The Character of Danger. New York: Basic Books. Chapter XIII, “The

frame of reference: comment and review”, pp. 354-395.

Regier, Darrel A., Jerome K. Myers, Morton Kramer, Lee N. Robins, Dan G. Blazer, Richard L.

Hough, William W. Eaton, and Ben Z. Locke. 1984. “The NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment

Area Program: historical context, major objectives, and study population characteristics”.

Archives of General Psychiatry. 41(10): 934.

Silver, Eric, Edward P. Mulvey, and Jeffrey W. Swanson. 2002. “Neighborhood structural

characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited”. Social Science & Medicine

55(8): 1457-1470.

Measurement and Conception

Horwitz, Allan V. 2002. “Outcomes in the sociology of mental health and illness: Where have

we been and where are we going?” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 43:143-151.

Keyes, Corey L. M. 2002. “The mental health continuum: From languishing to flourishing in

life”. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 207-222.

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Wakefield, Jerome C. and Mark F. Schmitz. 2010. “The Measurement of Mental Disorder”. Pp.

20-45 in The Handbook for the Study of Mental Health and Illness: Social Contexts, Theories,

and Systems, 2nd Ed., Teresa Scheid and Tony Brown, Eds. New York: Cambridge.

Stress Approaches

Holmes, Thomas H., and Richard H. Rahe. 1967. “The social readjustment rating scale”. Journal

of psychosomatic research 11(2): 213-218.

Horwitz, Allan. 2003. Creating Mental Illness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Conclusion, “Mental illnesses as social constructions”, pp. 208-229.

Ross, Catherine E. 2000. Neighborhood disadvantage and adult depression. Journal of Health

and Social Behavior, 41, 177–187.

Ross, Catherine E., Reynolds, J. R., & Geis, K. J. 2000. The contingent meaning of

neighborhood stability for residents’ psychological well-being. American Sociological Review,

65, 581–597.

Pearlin, Leonard I., Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Morton A. Lieberman, and Joseph T. Mullan. 1981.

“The stress process”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22(4): 337-356.

Rosenhan, David L. 1973. “On being sane in insane places.” Science 179: 250-258.

Thoits, Peggy. 2010. “Stress and health: major findings and policy implications.” Journal of

Health and Social Behavior 51(Supplement): S41-S53

Turner, R. Jay, Blair Wheaton, and Donald A. Lloyd. 1995. “The epidemiology of social stress."

American Sociological Review 64:104-125.

Stigma and Labeling

Goffman, Erving. 1963. Stigma: Notes On the Management of Spoiled Identities. New York:

Prentice-Hall. Chapter 1, “Stigma and social identity”, pp. 1-40.

Link, Bruce G, F T. Cullen, E. Struening, P. E. Shrout and B. P. A. Dohrenwend. 1989. “A

modified labeling theory approach to mental disorders: An empirical assessment”. American

Sociological Review 543:400-423.

Link, Bruce G. and Jo C. Phelan. 2001. “Conceptualizing stigma”. Annual Review of Sociology.

27:363-385.

Pescosolido, Bernice. 2013. “The public stigma of mental illness: What do we think; What do we

know; What can we prove?” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(1):1-21.

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The Treatment of Mental Illness

Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other

Inmates. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company. Chapter 1, “On the characteristics of total

institutions”, pp. 1-124.

Grob, Gerald. "Government and Mental Health Policy: A Structural Analysis." Milbank

Quarterly 72, no. 3 (1994): 471-500.

Horwitz, Allan V., and Jerome C. Wakefield. 2007. The Loss of Sadness. New York: Oxford

University Press. Chapters 1-2, “The concept of depression” and “The anatomy of normal

sadness”, pp.3-52.

Torrey, E. Fuller. 2012. The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously

Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens. NewYork: W.W. Norton & Company.

Watters, Ethan. 2010. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. New York:

Simon and Schuster. Introduction and Chapter 1, “The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong”. pp.1-63.

Healthcare Systems

The U. S. Health Care System – History, Quality of Care, and Policy

Light, Donald W. 2004. “Ironies of success: A new history of the American health care

‘system.’” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45 (Extra Issue): 1-24.

Quadagno, Jill. 2004. “Why the United States has no national health insurance: stakeholder

mobilization against the welfare state, 1945-1996.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45

(Extra Issue): 25-44.

Scott, W. Richard, Ruef, Martin, Mendel, Peter J., and Caronna, Carol A. 2000. Institutional

Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 9-10, “Institutional environments and the

organizational field” and “Instituional change and structuration processes, pp.312-363

Starr, Paul. 1984. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York: Basic Books.

Starr, Paul. 2011. Remedy and Reaction. New Haven: Yale University Press. Introduction, “An

uneasy victory”, pp. 1-24.

Washington, Harriet A. 2007. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation

on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. New York, NY: Doubleday.

Introduction, “The American Janus of medicine and race”, pp. 1-24.

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Comparative Health Care Systems

Davis, Karen, Kristof Stremikis, David Squires, Cathy Schoen. 2014. Mirror, Mirror on the

Wall: How the Performance of the U. S. Healthcare System Compares Internationally. New

York: The Commonwealth Fund.

Kikuzawa, Saeko, Sigrun Olafsdottir and Bernice Pescosolido. 2008. “Similar pressures,

different contexts: public attitudes toward government intervention for health care in 21

countries.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49(4): 385-399.

Reid, T. R. 2010. The Healing of America: The Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, Fairer Health

Care. New York: Penguin.

Stevens, Fred. 2010. “The convergence and divergence of modern health care systems.” Pp. 434-

454 in The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology edited by William C. Cockerham.

West Sussex, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

The Medical Profession

Abbott, Andrew. 1988. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.

Chapter 10, “The Construction of the Personal Problems Jurisdiction”, pp. 280-314. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press.

Bosk, Charles. 1979. Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure. Chicago: University

of Chicago Press. Chapter 6, “Conclusion”, pp.168-192.

Christakis, Nicholas A. 1999. Death Foretold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter

1, “Prognosis in medicine”, pp.1-29.

Fox, Renee. 1957. “Training for uncertainty.” Pp. 207-241 in Merton, Robert K., George G.

Reader, and Patricia L. Kendall (eds). The Student-Physician: Introductory Studies in the

Sociology of Medical Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Freidson, Eliot. 1970. Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge.

New York: Dodd, Mead. Chapters 1-2, “The emergence of medicine as a consulting profession”

and “Political organization and professional autonomy”, pp. 3-46.

Parsons, Talcott. 1951. The Social System. Chapter X. “Social structure and dynamic process:

the case of modern medical practice”. Pp.288-322. New York: The Free Press.

Pescosolido Bernice A., S.A. Tuch, and J.K. Martin. 2001. “The profession of medicine and the

public: examining Americans' changing confidence in physician authority from the beginning of

the 'health care crisis' to the era of health care reform.” Journal of Health and Social

Behavior 42(1):1-16.

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Stevens, Rosemary A. 2001. “Public roles for the medical profession in the United States:

beyond theories of decline and fall.” Milbank Quarterly. 79:1-15.

Medicalization and the Social Construction of Health and Illness

Brown, Phil. 1995. “Naming and framing: The social construction of diagnosis and illness”.

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 39, 201-215.

Conrad, Peter. 2005. “The shifting engines of medicalization”. Journal of Health and Social

Behavior 46: 3-14.

Conrad, Peter and Kristin K. Barker. 2010. “The social construction of illness: key insights and

policy implications.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(Supplement): S67-S79

Illich, Ivan. 2000 (1975). Medical Nemesis: The Limits of Medicine. London: Marian Boyars

Publishers Limited. Chapter 2 “The medicalization of life” pp. 39-124.

Zola, I.K. 1972. “Medicine as an institution of social control.” American Sociological Review

20: 487-504.

Health Care Utilization

Andersen, Ronald M. 1995. "Revisiting the behavioral model and access to medical care: does it

matter?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:1-10.

Balsa, Ana I., Thomas G. McGuire, and Lisa S. Meredith. 2005. "Testing for statistical

discrimination in health care." Health Services Research 40:227-252.

Lerner, Barron H. 1997. "From careless consumptives to recalcitrant patients: The historical

construction of noncompliance." Social Science & Medicine 45:1423-1431.

McKinlay, John B., Ting Lin, Karen Freund, and Mark Moskowitz. 2002. "The unexpected

influence of physician attributes on clinical decisions: Results of an experiment." Journal of

Health and Social Behavior 43:92-106.

Pescosolido, Bernice A. 1992. "Beyond rational choice: The social dynamics of how people seek

help." American Journal of Sociology 97:1096.

Pescosolido, Bernice A., Carol Brooks Gardner, and Keri M. Lubell. 1998. "How people get into

mental health services: Stories of choice, coercion and "muddling through" from "first-timers"."

Social Science & Medicine 46:275-286.

Schnittker, Jason. 2004. "Social distance in the clinical encounter: Interactional and

sociodemographic foundations for mistrust in physicians." Social Psychology Quarterly 67:217-

235.

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Thom, David H., Mark A. Hall, and L. Gregory Pawlson. 2004. “Measuring patients’ trust in

physicians when assessing quality of care.” Health Affairs 23:124-132.

Waitzkin, Howard. 1971. "Latent functions of the sick role in various institutional settings."

Social Science & Medicine (1967) 5:45-75.

INEQUALITY

Status Attainment and Social Mobility

Becker, Gary S. 1993. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special

Reference to Education (Third Edition). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 1.

Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. New

York: Wiley. Chapter 1&2.

Gender & Inequality

Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender &

Society (4.2):139-159.

Bielby, W. and J. Baron. 1986. “Men and Women at Work: Sex Segregation and Statistical

Discriminations.” American Journal of Sociology. 91:759-799.

Correll, Shelley J, Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. "Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood

Penalty?" American Journal of Sociology 112 (5): 1297-339.

Connell Robert and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the

Concept.” Gender & Society 19(6):829-859

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Hochschild eds. 2004. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex

Workers in the New Economy. New York, NY: Owl Books.

England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de

Gruyter. [Chapter 2]

Hartmann, Heidi. 1976. “Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex.” Signs 1:137-69.

Fenstermaker, Sarah and Candace West, eds. 2002. Doing Gender, Doing Difference. NY:

Routledge.

Hollander, Jocelyn, Daniel Renfrow and Judith Howard. 2011. Gendered Situations, Gendered

Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology, 2nd edition. Rowman and Littlefield.

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Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, ed. 1999. Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends.

Berkeley: University of California Press. [Chapters 1-3]

Ingraham, Chrys. 1994. “The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of

Gender.” Sociological Theory 12(2): 203-19.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.

Lucal, Betsy. 1999. "What It Means to Be a Gendered Me." Gender & Society 13(6): 781-797.

Pascoe, CJ. 2007. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley,CA:

University of California Press.

Ridgeway, Cecilia. 2012. Framed by Gender. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schilt, Kristen and Laurel Westbrook. 2009. “Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity.”

Gender & Society 23(4): 440-464.

Williams, Christine. 1992. “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ‘Female’

Professions.” Social Problems 39(3): 253-267.

Wingfield, Adia Harvey. 2009. “Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s

Experiences with Women’s Work.” Gender & Society 23:5-26.

Class & Inequality

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. “Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction.” Pp. 487-511 in Power

and Ideology in Education, edited by J. Karabel and A. H. Halsey. New York: Oxford University

Press.

Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform

and the Contradictions of Economic Life. New York: Basic Books.

Collins, Randall. 1971. “Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification.”

American Sociological Review 36:1002-1019.

Harrison, Bennett and Barry Bluestone. 1988. The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and

the Polarizing of America. New York: Basic Books.

Kalleberg, Arne. 2011. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs. Russell Sage Foundation.

Keister, Lisa A. and Stephanie Moller. 2000. “Wealth Inequality in the United States.” Annual

Review of Sociology 26:63-81.

Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families

and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67:747-76.

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Lareau, Annette. 1987. “Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The

Importance of Cultural Capital.” Sociology of Education 60:73-85.

Morris, Martina and Bruce Western. 1999. “Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth

Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 25:623-657.

Rank, Mark Robert. 2005. One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All.

New York: Oxford University Press. [Chapter 3]

Smeeding, T. M., Erikson, R., & Jantti, M. 2012. Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The

Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility “Introduction,” Pp. 1-24.

Race, Ethnicity, & Culture

Allport, Gordon. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. (Chapters 1-5,

16).

Blumer, Herbert 1958. “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position.” Pacific Sociological

Review, 1: 3-7.

Bobo, Lawrence. 1999. “Prejudice as group position: Microfoundations of a sociological

approach to racism and race relations.” Journal of Social Issues. 55(3):445-472.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 1997. “Rethinking Racism: Toward a structural analysis.” American

Sociological Review. 62:465-480.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2001. White supremacy and racism in the post-civil rights

era. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. (Chapters 3-5).

Dovidio, John 2001. “On the Nature of Contemporary Prejudice.” Journal of Social Issues.

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