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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... non-manual Secretary, receptionist IIIM Skilled manual Electrician, hairdresser IV Partly skilled Caretaker, hospital porter V Unskilled Cleaner, labourer Source: adapted from OPCS (1991:12) statistical correlations between occupational ...
... manual (bluecollar) working class and a non-manual (white-collar) middle class. The 'collar line' was widely regarded as the backbone of the class structure in the immediate post-war period (Parkin, 1971; Duke and Edgell, 1987; Southern ...
... manual working class clearly distinguished from and counterposed to a non-manual middle class (Mills, 1951; Lockwood, 1958; Willmott and Young, 1960). This developed into a growing debate over the usefulness of the manual/ non-manual ...
... manual workers and their families, associated with the high wages earned by semi-skilled male workers in the post-war boom, meant their lifestyles and political attitudes were converging with those of non-manual workers. It was this ...
... manual and non-manual groups had taken place via economic collectivism by white-collar workers and 'privatization' (or home-centredness) by manual workers. 3. There was evidence of 'instrumentality' where the worker held an essentially ...
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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