Comparative Studies of Social Structure: Recent German Research on France, the United States and the Federal Republic

ISBN-13: 9780873324083 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 224 str.

W. Teckenberg

Opis

An exploration of Eurasia's security environment. The authors examine political-military concerns and economic, ethnic, and environmental issues. This volume focuses on Russia and East Asia.

Spis treści

Preface, PART I. MOBILITY PATTERNS IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC AND THE UNITED STATES, Intergenerational and Career Mobility in the Federal Republic and the United States, PART II. CAREER MOBILITY IN FRANCE AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC, Employment and Career Mobility of Women in France and the Federal Republic, Entry into the Labor Market and Occupational Career in the Federal Republic: A Comparison with American Studies, PART III. INCOME ATTAINMENT IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC, THE UNITED STATES, AND FRANCE, Class Position and Income Inequality: Comparing Results for the Federal Republic with Current U.S. Research, Positional and Sectoral Differences in Income: The Federal Republic, France, and the United States, Summary and Discussion, References, About the Editor

O autorze

Wolfgang Teckenberg was trained in sociology, history, and languages at the University of Cologne. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Kiel, from 1978 until 1985, and is currently at the Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg. During 1981–82, as a German Marshall Fund fellow, Teckenberg was visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at Columbia University in New York. He has done extensive research on social stratification, mobility, and the impact of class in comparative perspective and has published numerous articles on these and other sociological topics. He is the author of The Social Structure of the Soviet Working Class: Toward an Estatist Society? (International Journal of Sociology, Vol. X I , No. 4) and of the USSR volume in the Gegenwartgesellschaften [Contemporary Societies] series published by Teubner Verlag (1983).