Social Inequality

by Kathryn M. Neckerman

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• 11 Currently reading

Published July 2004 by Russell Sage Foundation Publications .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Social groups & communities,
• Sociology,
• Social Science,
• Sociology - General,
• General,
• Equality,
• United States

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The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	1017
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL8348338M
ISBN 10	0871546213
ISBN 10	9780871546210

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