Understanding Social Inequality"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are - despite the claims of some influential commentators - still central to the sociological enterprise and, indeed to political life." - Roger Burrows, University of York "A clear and compelling analysis of the dynamics of social and spatial inequality in an era of globalisation. This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, human geography and the social sciences more generally." With the declining attention paid to social class in sociology, how can we analyze continuing and pervasive socio-economic inequality? What is the impact of recent developments in sociology on how we should understand disadvantage? Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, this book brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed ′fact′ that the world is becoming more unequal, this book brings together the ′identity of displacement′ in sociology and the ′spaces of flow′ of geography to show how place has become an increasingly important focus for understanding new trends in social inquality. |
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... (Lockwood, 1956), drew a basic contrast between 'traditional' (pre-industrial) and 'modern' (industrial) societies (Parsons, 1970). Sociology was essentially about understanding the functioning of modern society. The Enlightenment ...
... Lockwood, 1958; Willmott and Young, 1960). This developed into a growing debate over the usefulness of the manual/ non-manual divide in the form of the so-called embourgeoisement thesis and its more celebrated riposte in the 'Affluent ...
... Lockwood's work in particular was highly theoretically informed. His article in the British Journal of Sociology (Lockwood, 1956) remains the single most important critique of Parsonian structural functionalism, the argument being that ...
... Lockwood (1963) hypothesized that such notions were premature in an important paper which was effectively the research design for their later famous 'affluent worker' study undertaken in the mid-1960s. This study examined the work, home ...
... Lockwood (1966) had suggested; a point of view that provides some support for the subsequent work by Saunders (1990) on home ownership. Lockwood (1966) argued, however, that even if the workers were too busy (in Saunders' words) ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 The Aftermath of Affluence | 57 |
Chapter 5 New Spatial and Social Divisions of Labour | 76 |
Chapter 6 Poverty Social Exclusion and the Welfare State | 100 |
Chapter 7 New Work and New Workers | 135 |
Chapter 8 Class Identity | 165 |
Bibliography | 189 |
Notes | 211 |
Index | 215 |
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