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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... role of female employment and whether the household or individual constitutes the best 'unit' for measuring occupational class (H Roberts, 1993). Summaries of these debates and alternative class schemes are available elsewhere (Crompton ...
... occupational divisions in which sociological subjects play a very active role in painting the picture of their surrounding society. Further reading Crompton (1998) remains probably the best single overview. •9• ••• Introduction •••
... role played by cultural factors as seen in the 'cultural turn' (Devine and Savage, 2005). By way of illustration, it can be argued that the politics of class identification have been replaced by a politics in which constructions of ...
... role as team players and did not wish to be seen as cutting themselves off from their teams. The introduction of ICT meant that buildings like Centrepoint were now largely redundant: they simply could not be plumbed for the new ...
... role of state has also been under threat because it can no longer guarantee long-term benefits and security to its citizens, in part because it can no longer tie large corporations to its shores. This has serious implications for 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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