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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... contemporary life. We also both acknowledge a debt to Chris Hamnett who, at different times and in different institutions, supervised our doctoral theses, and has continued to influence our thinking. Thanks to the following for reading ...
... contemporary society at all, if it ever was (Pakulski and Waters, 1996). Why do they think this? The main answer is the argument that society has changed in ways that mean that the old class divisions are no longer important. Class is ...
... contemporary class relations. Many of these case studies are furthermore attentive to the spatial context of social action and again this is something that we wish to emphasize. Our main source of reference for much of the material in ...
... contemporary sociology and this book. The second main theme is that what were once mainly social processes, which were associated with particular places, are now ones which are truly socio-spatial in which place cannot simply be 'read ...
... contemporary discussion about the relationship between people and their place in the social structure. In The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey (1989) introduces the notion of 'time-space compression' (see Box 2.1) which provided ...
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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