The book concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among "the poorest of the poor" and focusing on US African Americans, Japan’s Burakumin, Afro-Cubans, the Dalits of India, and the Quechua and Aymara of Bolivia. _x000D_
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..