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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... politics towards symbolic representations of cultural difference ( Devine and Savage , 2005 ) , as exemplified by the influential and expanding field of cultural studies ( Munt , 2000 ) . Class is no longer ' king ' – there has been a ...
... political party ) as a whole ' . Hence the emphasis moves away from the multivariate analysis of large sur- vey data sets based upon occupational clusters , towards an understanding of the processes of class formation whereby the ...
... politics of class identification have been replaced by a politics in which constructions of identity are now far ... political and cultural life . It is , however , clear we can no longer rely on a sociology that operates within a ...
... political economy . BOX 2.1 TIME - SPACE COMPRESSION Harvey ( 1989 ) argues that postmodernism is a cultural construct of the flexible accumulation of the economy , or what others have called globalization . To make his argument Harvey ...
... political ideas . It marked the beginning of the end of the era in which , as the well known hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful composed in 1848 put it : The rich man in his castle , The poor man at his gate , He made them , high or ...
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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