Harold Kerbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Kerbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerbo |
| SIGNATURE | KERBO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embourgeoisement
As a new middle class (or white‐collar workers) of more skilled and better educated workers began to expand in the mid‐twentieth century, the boundaries between the working class, or proletariat, and this new middle class grew more complex. This new middle class was not like the old middle class of independent professionals, or petty bourgeoisie, and mostly were employed in large bureaucracies where in many ways they were like higher skilled fact…
Inequality
One of the most important characteristics of human societies throughout history has been the level of inequality among people in these societies. The level of inequality is usually related to economic advancement and a stronger position in the world economy, political stability, even civil war and revolution. The level of human inequalities has increased since the earliest simple horticultural societies from about 10,000 years ago. Inequality gen…
Underclass
The concept of an “underclass” is an attempt to put a name on the very poor within the United States and describe supposed common characteristics among people at the bottom of the class structure. Thus, along with the upper class, middle class, and working class, there is an underclass, often characterized much as Marx described with his concept of the lumpenproletariat . The term “underclass” was popularized in the second half of the twentieth c…
Social Stratification
Social stratification refers to a ranking of people or groups of people within a society. But the term was defined by the earliest sociologists as something more than the almost universal inequalities that exist in all but the least complex of societies. Social stratification refers to a system with predictable rules behind the ranking of individuals and groups which theories of social stratification are meant to uncover and understand. The exist…
Social Mobility
Throughout history, humans have always been concerned about improving their standard of living and that of their offspring. And this has especially been so with what can be called modern industrial societies when such improvements in citizens' standards of living and those of their offspring have become possible. For a nation as a whole, the beliefs citizens have about their chances of a better life or not have major consequences for the politica…
M arx, K arl
Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, in 1818 and died in London in 1883. While often referred to as the “father of communism,” he was much more than that. Marx was a historian and social scientist who founded some of the basic social scientific ideas and concepts still used today. At first glance, the main ideas behind Marx's theory of society and social stratification are deceptively simple. But Marxian theory is at the same time both simple an…
Dumont, Louis
Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist, born in Greece in 1911 and died in Paris in 1998. He rejected the intellectual life that his mother had hoped for after his father died when Dumont was young, and worked as a manual laborer and at, among other places, the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris in 1936. It was there that he became attracted to history and the social sciences and chose an academic career. His first ethnographic wo…
Social Stratification
Inequality amid Affluence
Foreign Investment and Disparities in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction
To remain economically competitive in the 21st century a nation must be able to secure resources beyond its borders and protect itself from other nations trying to do the same. While the situation has been shown to be more complex, the original assumption among world system researchers remains that multinational corporate penetration in the periphery can have negative effects on their prospects for economic development. But we now know that these…
Soziale Ungleichheit und gesellschaftliche Integration. Ein Vergleich von USA, Japan und Deutschland
The Ecology of Welfare
The basic ecology of human groups--the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns--is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap, George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology-- the interplay between housing and outlook, between the physical realities of a dwelling unit and the attitudes and r…
Foreign Investment and Disparities in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction
To remain economically competitive in the 21st century a nation must be able to secure resources beyond its borders and protect itself from other nations trying to do the same. While the situation has been shown to be more complex, the original assumption among world system researchers remains that multinational corporate penetration in the periphery can have negative effects on their prospects for economic development. But we now know that these…
The Ecology of Welfare
The basic ecology of human groups--the relationship between the distribution of population and material resources and the resultant social and cultural patterns--is a subject which has occasioned far more talk than down-to-earth research. Filling this gap, George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik consider one dimension of human ecology-- the interplay between housing and outlook, between the physical realities of a dwelling unit and the attitudes and r…
Soziale Ungleichheit und gesellschaftliche Integration. Ein Vergleich von USA, Japan und Deutschland
Foreign Investment and Disparities in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction
To remain economically competitive in the 21st century a nation must be able to secure resources beyond its borders and protect itself from other nations trying to do the same. While the situation has been shown to be more complex, the original assumption among world system researchers remains that multinational corporate penetration in the periphery can have negative effects on their prospects for economic development. But we now know that these…
Inequality amid Affluence
Social Stratification
Embourgeoisement
As a new middle class (or white‐collar workers) of more skilled and better educated workers began to expand in the mid‐twentieth century, the boundaries between the working class, or proletariat, and this new middle class grew more complex. This new middle class was not like the old middle class of independent professionals, or petty bourgeoisie, and mostly were employed in large bureaucracies where in many ways they were like higher skilled fact…
Inequality
One of the most important characteristics of human societies throughout history has been the level of inequality among people in these societies. The level of inequality is usually related to economic advancement and a stronger position in the world economy, political stability, even civil war and revolution. The level of human inequalities has increased since the earliest simple horticultural societies from about 10,000 years ago. Inequality gen…
Underclass
The concept of an “underclass” is an attempt to put a name on the very poor within the United States and describe supposed common characteristics among people at the bottom of the class structure. Thus, along with the upper class, middle class, and working class, there is an underclass, often characterized much as Marx described with his concept of the lumpenproletariat . The term “underclass” was popularized in the second half of the twentieth c…
Social Stratification
Social stratification refers to a ranking of people or groups of people within a society. But the term was defined by the earliest sociologists as something more than the almost universal inequalities that exist in all but the least complex of societies. Social stratification refers to a system with predictable rules behind the ranking of individuals and groups which theories of social stratification are meant to uncover and understand. The exist…
Social Mobility
Throughout history, humans have always been concerned about improving their standard of living and that of their offspring. And this has especially been so with what can be called modern industrial societies when such improvements in citizens' standards of living and those of their offspring have become possible. For a nation as a whole, the beliefs citizens have about their chances of a better life or not have major consequences for the politica…
M arx, K arl
Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, in 1818 and died in London in 1883. While often referred to as the “father of communism,” he was much more than that. Marx was a historian and social scientist who founded some of the basic social scientific ideas and concepts still used today. At first glance, the main ideas behind Marx's theory of society and social stratification are deceptively simple. But Marxian theory is at the same time both simple an…
Dumont, Louis
Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist, born in Greece in 1911 and died in Paris in 1998. He rejected the intellectual life that his mother had hoped for after his father died when Dumont was young, and worked as a manual laborer and at, among other places, the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris in 1936. It was there that he became attracted to history and the social sciences and chose an academic career. His first ethnographic wo…
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