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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... economic inequality, is no longer central to academic sociology. Indeed, some sociologists have claimed that the study of class is no longer relevant to understanding contemporary society at all, if it ever was (Pakulski and Waters ...
... Economic Classification (NS-SEC); see Rose and O'Reilly (1997) for a rationale and discussion of the new scheme. The eight-fold NS-SEC is effectively a modified version of the neoWeberian class scheme originally devised by John ...
... economic' with the social or cultural. Thus they have focused not only on 'class' factors – that is, economic power as reflected in production and market relationships – but also on ascriptive (status) factors associated with gender ...
... economic hierarchy partially at least as a consequence of differences between 'welfare regimes', as we discuss in Chapter 6. Finally, as mentioned above, our primary focus in this book is with socio-economic or class inequalities. In ...
... economic crisis in the 1970s and how the inner city developed as a metaphor for the nature of the changes taking place. In essence we argue, both groups had to throw away the sociological rulebook in order to comprehend the ...
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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