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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... capitalist societies (Giddens, 1973; Hamilton and Hirszowicz, 1993). Since the demise of the state socialist societies there has been renewed interest in the differences between Western capitalist societies (Crow, 1997). Chapter 7 ...
... capitalist modernity that gave rise to the particular certainties and structural imperatives that characterized sociological thinking for much of the twentieth century. In particular, classes were seen as the natural flora and fauna of ...
... capitalist modernity (Hardt and Negri, 2000). Quite how far this has been broken down by the apparent rise of globalization is unclear.4 Despite record flows of money, culture, information and populations across national borders and the ...
... capitalism and the ways in which it works through the lives of individuals whether they be technology consultants or ... capitalist modernization to be very much about speed-up and acceleration in the pace of economic processes and ...
... capitalist society. Risk can only be managed if it can first be identified: this applies as much to organizations as to individuals. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) requires all universities to undertake a risk ...
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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