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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... global cities , gentrification of the inner city and controversially – of an urban underclass . Chapter 6 focuses on the notion that , despite increased aggregate affluence , advanced capitalist societies during the last 30 years have ...
... city in the sky found more favour in Brazil and Argentina than in Europe or North America ( Fraser , 2000 ) ... global capitalism 70 years later . We will return to the theme of cities in much of this book ( Chapters 3 , 4 and 5 ) ...
... world societies but rather inequality is increasingly nestled together in the major and global cities – which demonstrates the extremes of wealth and poverty . ' Globalization , in this account , is therefore associated with a ...
... cities and industrial zones of many North American and European societies are increasingly multi - ethnic in ... global ' or ' world ' cities ( see Chapter 5 ) . During the last 40 years , London has been transformed from being a ...
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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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