Transmitting Inequality

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Transmitting Inequality is written by Yuval Elmelech and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1461646359 (ISBN 10) and 9781461646358 (ISBN 13).

While the United States is the world's richest nation, the distribution of private property and wealth among Americans is often comprised of alarmingly disparate portions. With a rapidly aging and increasingly diverse population, the interdependence between generations, institutions, and social spheres has become essential to social stratification processes in contemporary American society.. In this authoritative work, Yuval Elmelech investigates the role that family transactions of material resources play in the stratification system. Drawing on empirical evidence from a broad array of sources, Transmitting Inequality provides an interdisciplinary framework for examining the social, demographic and institutional structures that shape the distribution of property and wealth in the United States.