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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... Social Class scheme 6 1.2 National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification and equivalent Goldthorpe class names 7 4.1 Mean weekly incomes by occupational group, 1998 (£) 72 6.1 Welfare regime characteristics 103 6.2 Absolute poverty ...
... social class could adequately describe let alone explain it. We have both been heavily influenced by Mike Savage's project to make class a central part of the sociological account of contemporary life. We also both acknowledge a debt to ...
... class divisions are no longer important. Class is ultimately derived from economic distinctions bound up with the social relations of production ('you are what job you do') which dominated what Ransome (2005) calls the 'work-based ...
Tim Butler, Paul Watt. Family – Family and Class in a London Suburb by Peter Willmott and Michael Young (1960). Education – Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs by Paul Willis (1977). Employment (or what used ...
... class analysis have not connected up with their own 'private' worldviews and experiences, for example, as in debates over the 'best' occupational class scheme to use; see ... Class scheme Social Class Occupations. •5• ••• Introduction •••
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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