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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... increased by over 60 per cent in real terms between 1979 and 1996/97, whereas that of the poorest tenth rose by only 11 per cent (and even fell by 13 per cent if income is measured after housing costs!) (Sefton and Sutherland, 2005: 231) ...
... increasing marginalization in sociological discourses. As a result of these developments, class no longer acts as the bridge across the various sub-specialisms within the discipline of sociology. Instead, the study of social class, or ...
... increases. Work situation refers to the occupation's location within a system of authority and control and the degree of autonomy that people within that occupation have in undertaking their work tasks. The principles underlying the ...
... increasing social and economic crisis in the 1970s and how the inner city developed as a metaphor for the nature of the ... increased aggregate affluence, advanced capitalist societies during the last 30 years have increasingly generated ...
... increased sense of localism in many spheres of social, political and cultural life. It is, however, clear we can no longer rely on a sociology that operates within a largely national concept of a 'society', as happened for much of 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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