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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... example, as in debates over the 'best' occupational class scheme to use; see below.2 Our aim in this book is to offer a path through some of the debates and issues that are pertinent to the analysis of social inequality, especially ...
... Examples Professional Managerial and technical Skilled non - manual Skilled manual Partly skilled Solicitor ... example salary / wage levels , occupational pen- sion schemes and access to perks such as company cars , but also ...
... example between neo - Marxists and neo - Weberians ( Marshall et al . , 1988 ; Erikson and Goldthorpe , 1993 ; Wright , 1997 ) , as well as the acrimonious ' women and class ' debate over the role of female employment and whether the ...
... example , has , it has been argued , blinded many to its continuing possibilities ( Savage , 1995 ) . Moreover , there is much to be learned from the intensive , small - scale qualitative study in understanding how social processes work ...
... example , modern soci- eties typically have industrial , capitalist economies , democratic political organization and a social structure founded on a division into social classes . There is less agree- ment on cultural features , which ...
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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