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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements -- 2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View -- 3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place -- 4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis -- 5. Studying the Bottom of American Society -- 6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty -- 7. The Benefits of Poverty -- 8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market's Invisible Discards -- 9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems -- 10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market? -- 11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy's Problems -- 12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy -- 13. Race as Class -- 14. "Whitening" and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy -- 15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis -- 16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity -- 17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America? -- Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas-A Multi-Field Sociological Career

AbstractThis paper argues that diversity is more than just a mixing of people perceived as different, and consists of activities and relationships much like other social phenomena. Consequently, there is much to be studied, beginning with the diversification process by which diversity is implemented. Since diversification is often initiated as a deliberate policy, researchers can be helpful to policy makers, especially with empirical research that addresses their policy related questions.