Szonja Ivester
Office
via ZOOM
Research Interests
social inequality, class analysis, gender, political elites, globalization, socialist societies, health inequalities, happiness
Education:
1989 Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Wisconsin - Madison
1984 MS (Sociology), University of Wisconsin - Madison
1981 BA (History & Sociology), Flinders University of South Australia
Representative Publications
Selected Books:
- 2011. The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender, 2nd edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (co-edited with David B. Grusky)
- 2008. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 3rd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (co-edited with David B. Grusky and Manwai C. Ku).
- 2006. The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (co-edited with David B. Grusky)
- 2006. Social Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (co-edited with David B. Grusky)
- 1998. Equality by Design: The Grand Experiment in Destratification in Socialist Hungary. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Selected Articles & Book Chapters:
- 2014. "The Stories We Tell About Inequality." Pages 17-27 in Social Stratification, edited by David B. Grusky and Katherine R. Weisshaar. New York, NY: Routledge.
- 2001. "The 'Woman Problem' in Stratification Theory and Research." Pages 681-688 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 2nd Edition, edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- 2001. "Socialism and Communism." In The Encyclopedia of Sociology, revised edition, edited by Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J. V. Montgomery. New York, NY: Macmillan.
- 1996. "The Declining Significance of Class: Does Gender Complicate the Story?" (co-authored with Jackie Olvera) Theory and Society 25 (October): 725-730.
- 1996. "Interests and Symbols in Post-Communist Political Culture: The Case of Hungary" (co-authored with Ivan Szelenyi and Winifred R. Poster). American Sociological Review 61 (June): 466-477.
- 1995. "Circulation or Reproduction of Elites During Post-Communist Transformation of Eastern Europe" (co-authored with Ivan Szelenyi). Theory and Society 24 (October): 615-638.
- 1994. "Women and the Class Structure." Pages 577-582 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- 1993. "Inequalities in Educational Opportunity in Hungary" (co-authored with Karen E. Aschaffenburg). Pages 273-302 in Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Stratification in Thirteen Countries, edited by Yossi Shavit and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- 1992. "Economic Subsystems and the Occupational Structure: A Comparison of Hungary and the United States." Sociological Forum 7 (December): 563-586.
- 1992. "Socialism." Pages 1856-1863 in Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta. New York, NY: McMillan Press.
- 1991. "The Vacuum in Hungarian Politics: Classes and Parties." (co-authored with Ivan Szelenyi) New Left Review 187 (May/June): 121-137.
- 1987. Social Inequality and Party Membership: Patterns of Recruitment into the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party." American Sociological Review 52 (October): 559-573.
- 1981. "The Gentrification of the City of Adelaide." (co-authored with Richard W. J. Randell) Flinders Journal of History and Politics 7: 1-19.
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