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"I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anti-consumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice.
Clerks (Retail trade) --- Consumers --- Discrimination in employment --- Equality --- Toy industry --- Employees. --- Jouets --- Commis vendeurs (Commerce de détail) --- Discrimination dans l'emploi --- Consommateurs --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Industrie --- Personnel --- Clerks (Salesmen) --- Retail clerks --- Sales clerks --- Stores, Retail --- Clerks --- Retail trade --- Sales personnel --- Leisure industry --- Employees --- E-books --- american economics. --- behavioral studies. --- box outlet stores. --- class issues. --- consumer behavior. --- consumer culture. --- gender issues. --- labor laws. --- low wage jobs. --- national chain stores. --- nonfiction. --- race issues. --- racial dynamics. --- retail industry. --- retail work. --- shopping mall culture. --- shopping politics. --- social hierarchies. --- social impacts. --- social inequality. --- social justice. --- social sciences. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- toy shopping. --- toy stores. --- union members. --- upscale shops.
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Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America.White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves to be ‘anti-racist’?”Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. It is a process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. By interviewing kids who are growing up in different racial contexts—from racially segregated to meaningfully integrated and from politically progressive to conservative—this important book documents key differences in the outcomes of white racial socialization across families. And by observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.
Racism --- Socialization. --- Children of the rich --- Youth, White --- Youth, White --- Attitudes. --- Social conditions. --- Attitudes. --- United States. --- United States --- Estados Unidos --- United States --- Race relations --- Relaciones raciales --- Race relations --- American kids. --- anit-racism. --- anti-racist. --- child agency. --- child-centered interviews. --- childhood friendship. --- children’s perspectives. --- children’s social views. --- class and race. --- community volunteering. --- conundrum of privilege. --- ethnographic observations. --- ethnography. --- extracurricular activities. --- growing up with race. --- ideology. --- inequality. --- interracial interactions. --- parenting. --- political identities. --- private schooling. --- privilege. --- public schools. --- race. --- racial context. --- racial dynamics. --- racial socialization. --- racialized police violence. --- racism. --- school choice. --- segregation. --- social reproduction. --- social structure. --- socialization. --- sociology of race. --- white children. --- white privilege. --- whiteness. --- youth sports.
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Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America.White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves to be ‘anti-racist’?”Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. It is a process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. By interviewing kids who are growing up in different racial contexts—from racially segregated to meaningfully integrated and from politically progressive to conservative—this important book documents key differences in the outcomes of white racial socialization across families. And by observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.
Racism --- Socialization. --- Children of the rich --- Youth, White --- Attitudes. --- Social conditions. --- United States. --- United States --- Estados Unidos --- Race relations --- Relaciones raciales --- American kids. --- anit-racism. --- anti-racist. --- child agency. --- child-centered interviews. --- childhood friendship. --- children’s perspectives. --- children’s social views. --- class and race. --- community volunteering. --- conundrum of privilege. --- ethnographic observations. --- ethnography. --- extracurricular activities. --- growing up with race. --- ideology. --- inequality. --- interracial interactions. --- parenting. --- political identities. --- private schooling. --- privilege. --- public schools. --- race. --- racial context. --- racial dynamics. --- racial socialization. --- racialized police violence. --- racism. --- school choice. --- segregation. --- social reproduction. --- social structure. --- socialization. --- sociology of race. --- white children. --- white privilege. --- whiteness. --- youth sports. --- Social problems --- Age group sociology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- United States of America
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Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries-France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands-and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions-from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems-and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage.Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies.Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.
Integrationspolitik. --- Integration av invandrare. --- Immigration. --- Migration --- Migration. --- Soziale Integration. --- Einwanderung. --- Children of immigrants --- Social integration --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Inclusion, Social --- Integration, Social --- Social inclusion --- Sociology --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- religiösa aspekter. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Europa. --- Kanada. --- USA. --- Nordamerika. --- Västeuropa. --- Europe, Western --- United States --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Emigration and immigration. --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- African immigrants. --- Christians. --- Muslims. --- North America. --- U.S. civil rights movement. --- Western Europe. --- belonging. --- black ghettoes. --- color-coded race. --- demographic transition. --- diverse neighborhoods. --- economic incorporation. --- economic inequality. --- economic migration. --- economic situations. --- economic structures. --- education. --- electoral representation. --- ghettoization. --- government policies. --- human-capital immigrants. --- identities. --- identity. --- immigrant children. --- immigrant families. --- immigrant groups. --- immigrant integration. --- immigrant minorities. --- immigrant neighborhoods. --- immigrant politicians. --- immigrant religion. --- immigrant-origin groups. --- immigrants. --- immigration laws. --- immigration. --- inclusion. --- integration. --- intermarriage. --- labor force participation. --- labor market inequality. --- legal segregation. --- low-status immigrants. --- low-status immigrations. --- mainstream society. --- migration. --- mixed unions. --- national identity. --- native black population. --- native-born citizens. --- new immigrants. --- political inclusion. --- political integration. --- political representation. --- population structures. --- poverty. --- race. --- racial dynamics. --- religion. --- religious backgrounds. --- residential segregation. --- second-generation immigrants. --- slavery. --- social divide. --- social mobility. --- societal institutions. --- societal membership. --- societal power. --- socioeconomic profile. --- unemployment. --- workforce. --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Zuwanderung --- Internationale Migration --- Einwanderer --- Exil --- Gesellschaftliche Integration --- Soziale Eingliederung --- Integration --- Assimilation --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika --- Canada --- Dominion of Canada --- Puissance du Canada --- Kanadier --- Provinz Kanada --- 01.07.1867 --- -Abendland --- Okzident --- Europäer
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